Havel at Columbia



This Day in The Velvet Revolution, 1989

November 16, 1989: Police disperse peaceful demonstration in Bratislava

A peaceful student demonstration in Bratislava on the eve of International Student Day puts the already-wary authorities on the alert. Plans are in place to control the approved student march in Prague the following day. Havel is out of Prague at his country home, seeking to avoid the kind of preemptive detention he underwent on October 27th.