Czechs open memorial to student who burned himself to death

PRAGUE (AP) — A new memorial is opening to a university student who burned himself to death in protest at the 1968 Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia.
Jan Palach’s childhood home in Vsetaty, north of Prague, has been turned into a chapel-like space to allow visitors to contemplate what he did for the nation. An adjacent pavilion contains a small museum.
The 20-year-old set himself on fire five months after the Warsaw Pact countries crushed liberal reforms known as the Prague Sprin