Jan Palach - Jiri Palach - Libuse Palachova

Czech university student Jan Palach set himself on fire in Wenceslas Square in Prague on January 16, 1969, as a political protest against the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia. His funeral turned into a major mass protest against the occupation. Another student Jan Zajic burned himself to death in the same place on February 25, 1969, followed by Evzen Plocek in April 1969 in Jihlava. Jan Palachs mother Libuse Palachova, centre, his older brother Jiri, left, and other unidentified relatives at the coffin during funeral ceremony of Jan Palach at the courtyard of Karolinum, official seat of Charles University in Prague, January 25, 1969. CTK Photo

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Burned Evzen Followed Jihlava Jiri Karolinum Libuse Normalization Pact Palach Palachova Palachs Plocek Relatives Wenceslas Zajic

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