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The Czech Republic is likely to host part of the US anti-missile defence
shield in Europe. The American administration has officially asked the US
Congress to fund the early warning program. Czech Prime Minister Petr
Nečas confirmed the news on Friday, saying that the new centre could be
positioned in Prague or in its vicinity. If approved, the project could be
launched before the end of the year.
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Current AffairsUS anti-military activist follows Czech No to Bases leaders on hunger
Plans to build a US radar base in the Czech Republic have been in the news
lately, after a protest hunger strike undertaken by two members of a group
called No to Bases. Jan Tamáš and Jan Bednář, who started eating solid
food again on Monday, are now being replaced by various public figures on
short symbolic fasts. Their influence has also spread outside the Czech
Republic, inspiring Bruce Gagnon, an activist with the US-based Global
Network against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space; Mr Gagnon has not eaten
for a week and a half – on the phone from his home in Maine he told me
why he was on hunger strike.
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Current AffairsDemonstrators end anti-radar hunger strike – but politicians to take up cause.
At midnight on Monday, protesters Jan Tamáš and Jan Bednář will suspend
their three week hunger strike over the government’s plans to allow a US
anti-missile radar base into the country. Their cause has received
international publicity and sparked controversy in Prague where some
politicians have called them blackmailers, while others have offered to
take up their cause. On Monday Dominik Jůn caught up with a clearly
malnourished Jan Tamáš to find out how he felt and whether the protest
had had the desired result.
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Current AffairsAnti-radar activist goes on hunger strike
On Tuesday at 11am, anti-radar activist and chairman of the Czech Humanist
Party Jan Tamáš began a hunger strike in protest at the Czech
Republic’s impending acceptance of a US missile-defence radar base in the
country. Dominik Jůn met with Jan Tamáš at his base of operations - a
rented shop space in the centre of Prague, to discuss his motivations for
taking such a drastic step:
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