BRATISLAVA: Czech Republic and Slovakia are observing the 25th anniversary of Velvet Revolution on November 17.
The Velvet Revolution or Gentle Revolution was a non-violent transition of power in what was then Czechoslovakia.
The period of upheaval and transition took place from November 16/17 to December 29, 1989. Popular demonstrations against the one-party government of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia combined students and older dissidents.
The final result was the end of 41-year communist rule in Czechoslovakia, and the subsequent conversion to a parliamentary republic.
On November 16, 1989, Slovak high school and university students organized a peaceful demonstration in the center of Bratislava. The next day, November 17, 1989 (International Students’ Day), riot police suppressed a big student demonstration in Prague. That event sparked a series of demonstrations from November 19 to late December. By November 20, the number of protesters assembled in Prague had grown from 200,000 the previous day to an estimated 500,000.
A two-hour general strike involving all citizens of Czechoslovakia was held on November 24. On November 27, the entire top leadership of the Communist Party, including General Secretary Miloš Jakeš, resigned.
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