In the Indian parliament, the opposition party observed a minute’s silence on Bobby Sands’ death. In New York Union Jacks were pulled down and burned. In Le Mans a street was named after Sands. In Cuba Fidel Castro said: ‘The Irish patriots are in the process of writing one of the most heroic pages in human history.’31 In Paris, the French Foreign Minister, Claude Cheysson, spoke publicly of the ‘supreme sacrifice’ which the hunger-strikers had made, going on to state that their courage demanded respect. The French Government also offered the Dublin Government two gestures of solidarity which
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