Chekhov, hungry for three weeks against the placement of the American radar, replace politicians and intellectuals

Activists of the Czech Civil Initiative “There are no military bases” by Yang Tamash and Yang Bednarzh, who, in protest against the implementation of plans for the placement of near Prague, hold a hunger strike for three weeks, at midnight in the Central European time left it. They will be replaced by politicians and intellectuals.

During Tuesday, a prominent Czech public figure, human rights activist and one of the leaders of the “velvet” revolution Peter st.

Deputies of the Czech parliament, artists, former dissidents, athletes and scientists expressed a desire to take part in the action. Each of them will accept the baton of protest, at least for one day.

According to the statement by Jan Tamash and Yana Bednarzh, the hunger strike will be of the character of a symbolic chain and will acquire an international scope. Politics, public figures and ordinary citizens of the United States, the European Union and Australia will join it.

On Monday, the leader of the European Humanitarian Forum, Georgio Schulz, began an indefinite hunger strike.

The initiators of the International Protest Promotion urge all citizens worried about the deployment plans of global pro, on June 22 to conduct a one-day hunger strike, ITAR-TASS reports.

"The project presented as a defendant, according to American government sources, is intended for the offensive. That is why Canada abandoned in 2005 in 2005," the statement says.

Prague anti -war activists urge the Czech authorities to refuse to participate in the plans to deploy the elements of global PRO and declare a nationwide referendum on the creation of radar.

“We propose to interrupt the Czech -American negotiations for one year, start a wide discussion on this subject in the Czech Republic, find out the position of the EU and the future American administration on this issue,” the document emphasizes.

On Monday evening, the protection of the Barda training ground of 90 km southwest of Prague, where it is supposed to place the US radar, blocked access to the Greenpeace tent town broken there more than a month ago without the permission of the authorities.

Activists of the International Environmental Organization that day proclaimed to create at the site of the possible installation of the radar of the Republic of Peace. “The United States can no longer negotiate with the Czech Republic on radar issues and should turn to the“ Republic of the World, ”said Lenka Borakova, spokeswoman for the Czech branch of Greenpeace.