Around 1,500 people took part in the demonstration in Prague on Monday to oppose against the planned U.S. radar base on Czech soil.
The march moved from the city center to the Government Office. The participants shouted slogans protesting against the radar and lashing out at Mirek Topolanek, Prime Minister of the center-right government.
Some were carrying flags and banners reading "No to American radar colonization," and "Say No to radar."
The organizers of the march called on the participants to support the Greenpeace activists who occupied the planned radar site in the Brdy military district, some 90 km southwest of Prague.
The protesters were addressed by Lubomir Zaoralek, lower house deputy head, who is against the radar.
Zaoralek promised the protesters that the lower house will prevent the passing of the Czech-U.S. treaties on the radar installation.
The same day, hundreds of opponents of the U.S. planned radar base met outside the Government Office to express disagreement with the U.S. project.
Source:Xinhua
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