Czechs rally in Prague to protest US radar base
18/11/2008 17:55
Nearly 1,000 people rallied in Prague yesterday to protest US plans to
build a missile defense radar base in the Czech Republic.
Holding banners and
posts reading "No US base needed in Prague" and "76 percent citizens against
radar base," the demonstrators chanted slogans like "referendum, referendum"
during the day-long protest.
A demonstrator told Xinhua that there should be
no more foreign troops in the Eastern European country. The man also believed
the US radar base will be aimed at Russia, not Iran or the Democratic People's
Republic of Korea.
The United States on July 9 signed a treaty with the Czech
Republic on construction of a missile defense radar base, which would mean the
stationing of foreign troops in the country for the first time since the 1968
Soviet invasion.
The march was organized by the No to Bases group which was
established in 2006. Along with over 40 other groups, it has organized many
rallies across the country in protest of the establishment of the US radar
base.
Xinhua
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