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Czechs honour student who killed himself in 1969

(16 Jan 2019) Czechs on Wednesday paid tribute to Jan Palach, a student who set himself alight 50 years ago to inspire the nation's resistance against the 1968 Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia. Various commemorative events were held at Charles University in Prague, where he studied, and elsewhere across the country. Palach set himself on fire in Wenceslas Square on 16 January 1969, almost five months after the armies of the five Warsaw Pact countries crushed the liberal reforms known as the 'Prague Spring'. He died three days later. Palach's self-immolation shocked the country but failed to make an immediate impact because the hardline Communist regime established after the invasion harshly persecuted any dissent. But it inspired massive protests twenty years later, in January 1989, and the Velvet Revolution led by Vaclav Havel later that year helped to end the Communist era. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...