Representatives of the Senate honored the Horák memorial as we speak with a symbolic minute of silence at her memorial in Prague’s Mala Strana. The Deputy Chairman of the Senate Jiří Drahoš (for STAN) along with the Chairman of the Senate Committee for Human Rights Jiří Růžička (for TOP 09) laid flowers tied with a ribbon within the nationwide colours on the monument. The bronze monument depicts a lectern with a microphone on which a lark sits as a logo of freedom and free speech. The counter is positioned on a stone pill with the phrases that Horáková allegedly uttered earlier than the execution.
“74 years in the past Milada Horáková, Jan Buchal, Oldřich Pecl and Záviš Kalandra had been executed after a fabricated trial. At this time we keep in mind not solely their heroism, but in addition the bravery of 1000’s of others who sacrificed their lives within the struggle for freedom and justice. Actually ENOUGH!” wrote Minister for European Affairs Martin Dvořák (STAN), who was referring to the coalition wherein the KSČM ran for the European Parliament this yr.
Prime Minister Petr Fiala (ODS) recalled how many individuals had been executed in the course of the communist regime. “In Czechoslovakia, 248 individuals have been executed since 1948, and plenty of occasions extra residents have died in internment camps, prisons or when attempting to cross state borders,” wrote Fiala on the X community.
“We are going to always remember. Dwelling in a democracy just isn’t a matter in fact,” adopted by former Minister for Science and Analysis Helena Langšádlová (TOP 09).
KDU-ČSL MP Ondřej Benešík added a harsh evaluation. “The communist regime was brutal, insidious and paranoid. He liquidated perceived enemies, his personal members and political opponents whose ‘fault’ was that they wished to work for his or her nation,” he wrote
Alleged espionage and treason
The place the place Horáková’s stays are buried remains to be unknown. In accordance with the researchers, the urns with the ashes of Pecla and Buchal are within the mass burial floor on the Motol cemetery in Prague. Kalandra is on the checklist of executed and deceased political prisoners, whose cremated stays, in accordance with the Jail Service, had been scattered by guards within the Nineteen Sixties on the previous execution floor of the Pankrák jail. Archaeologists reported on the invention of this burial website final June.
Of the piets outdoors the capital, one will happen within the morning within the Small Fortress of Terezín, the place Horáková was imprisoned by the Gestapo as a participant within the anti-Nazi resistance in the course of the Second World Warfare.
Lawyer, Nationwide Socialist member of parliament and fighter for ladies’s rights, Horáková additionally actively spoke out towards the communist regime. In 1950, she was sentenced to dying in a fabricated trial for alleged espionage and treason. She was executed regardless of the intercession of personalities from everywhere in the world. She was the one lady convicted and executed in a political trial by the communists in Czechoslovakia.
