Jan Palach - rally - meeting - last respects

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. People light candles to pay their last respects to Jan Palach on Wenceslas Square in Prague, January 22, 1969. (CTK Photo/Josef Nosek)

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