Gurkha breaks hunger strike after Britain launches inquiry

[super jumbe]

A former Gurkha has ended a two-week hunger strike after British MPs launched a probe into pension and other rights for the Nepalese soldiers.

Gyanraj Rai, 55, had been camped out opposite Prime Minister David Cameron's Downing Street office in London threatening to starve himself to death.

Earlier this week around 1,000 ex-Gurkhas who served with the British army marched past Downing Street to highlight their call for better pension, benefits and health care rights.

Conservative MP Rob Wilson brokered a deal between campaigners and parliamentarians to end the protest.

A cross-party commission will take written and oral evidence before reporting its findings, which will be considered by the government next year.

Actress Joanna Lumley, a fervent supporter of the Gurkhas' cause, gave Rai a glass of fruit juice with which he broke his hunger strike.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/gurkha-breaks-hunger-strike-britain-launches-inquiry-003226350.html

[super jumbe]

We not suppose to give in to blackmail (Blackmail is an act, often a crime) UAS did not give in to guantanamo detainees hunger strike why UUK????

[Meat-Head]

A former Gurkha has ended a two-week hunger strike after British MPs launched a probe into pension and other rights for the Nepalese soldiers.

We not suppose to give in to blackmail (Blackmail is an act, often a crime)

Sorry seem to be missing something here, what has Ingland got to do with them HORRID things you find in ALL MacDonalds burgers from Nepalesee??

[rds60h]

The Gurkhas are brave Nepalese who are proud to serve in our military services and have achieved outstanding performances as a military unit with many having sacrificed their lives and so should deserve to be treated with decency, honour and pride.
But our government sees fit to treat them worse than a newly arrived Roma gypsy.....................Shame on them !!!

[Meat-Head]

The Gurkhas are brave Nepalese who are proud to serve in our military services and have achieved outstanding performances as a military unit with many having sacrificed their lives and so should deserve to be treated with decency, honour and pride.
But our government sees fit to treat them worse than a newly arrived Roma gypsy.....................Shame on them !!!

Oh i see combination of Goverment privertiseation and no differnce to finding there 3,000,000 unemplyed Inglish people, yet 56,000,000,000,000 Polish people here all of which have jobs.

So i stand on the side of the Goverment - not very often that happens.

Is it the dead ones causing the greif?

[rds60h]

The Gurkhas have served Britain since 1815 and during that time Gurkha regiments have been awarded 26 Victoria Crosses. During World War I (1914–18), more than 200,000 Gurkhas served in the British Army, suffering approximately 20,000 casualties, and receiving almost 2,000 gallantry awards and during World War II (1939-45) a total of 250,280 Gurkhas served in 40 battalions, fighting in Syria, North Africa, Italy, Greece and against the Japanese in the jungles of Burma, northeast India and also Singapore. They did so with considerable distinction, earning 2,734 bravery awards in the process and suffered around 32,000 casualties.
They have evoked quotes such as " Bravest of the brave most generous of the generous, never had a country more faithful friends than you." from Professor Sir Ralph Lilley Turner and ""If a man says he is not afraid of dying, he is either lying or is a Gurkha." from Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw.
After service most Gurkhas return to Nepal and receive smaller pensions than their British counterparts. The nationality status of Gurkhas and their families was also an area of dispute and some of those ex-army Gurkhas and their Nepali families who stayed on in Britain were denied residency and forced to leave Britain, this despite the fact they had chosen to serve Britain and put their lives on the line.
I know who I would prefer to be residents in this country and who deserve it !!!

[nara]

We not suppose to give in to blackmail (Blackmail is an act, often a crime) UAS did not give in to guantanamo detainees hunger strike why UUK????

I think you need to get yourself a dictionary and look up the definition of blackmail SJ.

[super jumbe]

I think you need to get yourself a dictionary and look up the definition of blackmail SJ.

(DICTIONARY)

[nara]

(DICTIONARY)

"A dictionary is a collection of words in one or more specific languages, often listed alphabetically (or by radical and stroke for ideographic languages), with usage information, definitions, etymologies, phonetics, pronunciations, and other information."

Wikipedia