Gurkhas go on hunger strike over pensions inequality
Telegraph, 12 Aug 2021
A group of veteran Gurkhas have been on a hunger strike to protest their pensions.
The Defence Secretary has been told to “look out of his window” at the Gurkhas, whose hunger strike over pensions inequality has left some of them so weak they cannot speak or stand.
Those refusing to eat are in their fifth day of protesting outside Downing Street over the Government’s failure to provide them with a full Armed Forces pension.
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The Defence Secretary has been told to “look out of his window” at the Gurkhas, whose hunger strike over pensions inequality has left some of them so weak they cannot speak or stand.
Those refusing to eat are in their fifth day of protesting outside Downing Street over the Government’s failure to provide them with a full Armed Forces pension.
Read the full story: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/08/11/defence-secretary-told-look-window-gurkha-hunger-strike-leaves/
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