Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100Tue, 21 Jul 2026 22:23:05 +0200https://english.radio.cz/jaroslava-moserova-remembering-jan-palach-8069966© 2026 Radio Prague International Jaroslava Moserova is one of the most widely respected Senators in the Czech parliament, and has even been spoken of as a possible successor to President Havel. But her memory for this week's Witness goes back to her previous career as a doctor and burns expert at the plastic surgery clinic of the Charles University Faculty Hospital here in Prague. She was on duty when, on the 16th January 1969, the twenty-year-old Jan Palach was rushed into the clinic with third degree burns. He had doused himself with petrol and set himself alight on Wenceslas Square, a desperate protest against the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia five months earlier. Jan Palach died three days later, 34 years ago last Sunday, but around the world his name remained a symbol of the tragedy of the occupation. encr@radio.cz (Cesky Rozhlas)webmaster@radio.cz (CRo Webmaster) https://english.radio.cz/sites/default/files/images/4f5197446b1f6808606b2a0aab5e5a67.png?timestamp=1583150525 https://english.radio.cz/jaroslava-moserova-remembering-jan-palach-8069966 Radio Prague International Radio Prague International radio.prague.int@gmail.com clean 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9