Czechs Agog Over Teen Immolations

[dArKeR]

It's a troubling trend in a country with a fiery past: Young, despondent Czechs committing suicide by setting themselves ablaze.

According to Czech media, five have died and 11 others attempted suicide but survived. The wave of burnings has revived painful memories of two students whose death by self-immolation in 1969 came to symbolize resistance to the communist regime of the time.

Jan Palach, and Jan Zajic a month later, were protesting the public apathy that followed the 1968 Soviet-led invasion to oust a reformist Marxist government in then-Czechoslovakia.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/11/03/world/main581616.shtml

I have a comment about the pic show on this link. As I often travel around Asia I usually don't see uniformed medical personnel. Often no abulances either. An injured person is thrown in the back of a taxi or a passerby picks them up.

[JVS]

1. Interesting quote

"Nobody should complain about bad living conditions," he said. "People should be happy to even eat out of trash cans, as they can do that in freedom."

Ah, the globalized version of "Let them eat cake"