Current Affairs Jan Palach's suicide remembered 38 years on

16-01-2007 15:40 | Rob Cameron

Tuesday marks the 38th anniversary of the self-immolation of Jan Palach, the young student whose suicide transformed him into a symbol of Czechoslovak resistance following the 1968 Soviet-led invasion. Jan Palach would have turned 59 this year he not taken his own life. His legacy, however, lives on.

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