Protest

funeral of Jan Palach

25 Jan 1969 · 50.08° N, 14.45° E

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When
25 Jan 1969
Kind
Protest
Coordinates
50.08° N, 14.45° E
Cause
self-immolation

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Jan Palach

Czech student who self-immolated (1948–1969)

Jan Palach was a Czech student of history and political economics at Charles University in Prague. His self-immolation in 1969 at the age of 20 was a political protest against the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 which brought an end to the Prague Spring.

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