Jan Palach - last respects - candles - flowers

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. Flowers and candles which people laid at St.Wenceslas monument to honour Jan Palach. (CTK Photo/Alexandr Hampl)

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