What touched off Mark Yampolskys hunger strike was a death. His wifes grandfather passed away in Switzerland while waiting for his family to join them. When the grandfather learned that his family had been absolutely denied permission to emigrate. and that they had been barred from reapplying for permission for a full year. it was more than he could bear at his age. He died. and Mark began his hunger strike as a way of making sure that his wifes grandfather would be heard in death as he was not in life. The death of one man and the protest of another are not ordinarily events of great note.
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