World Tibet Network News Monday, April 27, 1998

Three remaining Tibetan hunger strikers in India have been forced to end their protest by police who intervened to stop them from harming themselves.

The hunger strikers have been taken to hospital by police on the 49th day of their fast.

Organisers have said new volunteers will take the place of anyone who's forced to stop ... and that the hunger strike will continue until the UN intervenes in the dispute between China, and independence activists in its Tibet province.

Police have monitored the protest action since six people began to live only on water flavoured with lemon juice in early March.

They took the first three of the hunger strikers to hospital on the weekend.

Suicide is illegal in India, and officials had long been expected to forcibly end the strike.