Jan Tamas, an activist of the Czech civic group No to Bases, went on hunger strike in protest against the planned U.S. missile defense radar base in west Bohemia area of the country, the Czech news agency CTK said on Tuesday.
Tamas said he would remain on hunger strike indefinitely at a publicly accessible place in Belehradska street in Prague, along with another opponent of the radar, Jan Bednar, CTK said.
"We want a real discussion to be led about the radar," Tamas said.
He added that the aim of his hunger strike is to force the government to cease the talks with the United States about the possible stationing of a radar base in the Czech Republic.
No real discussion about the radar had taken place in the past two years, Tamas pointed out.
According to CTK, his protest will be documented on the websitewww.nenasili.cz.
Over 76,000 people have signed the petition against the U.S. radar on the Internet, Tamas said.
Most public opinion polls show that a majority of Czechs are against the radar, as is the left-wing opposition and even certain deputies for the center-right governing coalition.
The United States plans to build a radar base at the Brdy military district, some 90 km southwest of Czech capital Prague, along with an interceptor missile base in Poland, but Warsaw has yet to agree to the move.
Source:Xinhua
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