Plaque to commemorate Czech student's self-immolation

A temporary plaque to mark Czech student Jan Zajic's self-immolation in protest against society's lethargy after the 1968 Soviet invasion was unveiled on Monday on a building on Wenceslas Square in central Prague where he set himself on fire on February 25, 1969. Zajic, aged 18 years, followed student Jan Palach, who set himself on fire on January 16, 1969 and died of fatal burns three days later, aged 20. Both students thereby expressed their disagreement with people's passivity and the starting normalisation or the restoration of hardcore communist rule, following the 1968 Soviet-led Warsaw Pact troops invasion of Czechoslovakia that crushed the Prague Spring communist-led reform movement.