Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100Fri, 24 Jul 2026 23:49:34 +0200https://english.radio.cz/czechtek-clashes-inspire-a-latter-day-protest-song-8629049© 2026 Radio Prague International What has the Czech singer/songwriter, Jaromir Nohavica - singing to the nothing more than an acoustic guitar - have in common with the endlessly repetitive rhythms of Techno? The answer is quite simple. Nohavica, famed for his protest songs going back to the days of communism and his role in the recent Czech film Year of the Devil, has composed a brand new protest song. He is responding to last weekend's huge techno-party that ended in violent clashes between participants and the police, who used tear gas, water cannon and batons to end the rave. The police intervention has divided Czech society between those, including the Prime Minister Jiri Paroubek, who say that the police were simply fulfilling their duty to preserve law and order and those, including President Vaclav Klaus, and his predecessor Vaclav Havel, who say that the intervention was vastly out of scale. encr@radio.cz (Cesky Rozhlas)webmaster@radio.cz (CRo Webmaster) https://english.radio.cz/sites/default/files/images/czechtek_letna4.jpg?timestamp=1591471050 https://english.radio.cz/czechtek-clashes-inspire-a-latter-day-protest-song-8629049 Radio Prague International Radio Prague International radio.prague.int@gmail.com clean 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9