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26th January 2012, 11:01
"Police wielding truncheons and firing tear gas from pressure canisters have broken up a march by hundreds of demonstrators in central Prague.
The violence erupted as officers tried to disperse the crowd gathered at the foot of the Wenceslas Statue, to pay tribute to Jan Palach, the student who burned himself to death in protest at the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia."
Source - BBC History (http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/26/newsid_2506000/2506353.stm)
Your thoughts comrades?
The violence erupted as officers tried to disperse the crowd gathered at the foot of the Wenceslas Statue, to pay tribute to Jan Palach, the student who burned himself to death in protest at the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia."
Source - BBC History (http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/26/newsid_2506000/2506353.stm)
Your thoughts comrades?