With great sadness and despair has European Democrat Students learned that today, on this 18th day of December 2011, the great leader of the Velvet Revolution, first President of post communist Czechoslovakia and a play write, Václav Havel, died.
A legend for the peaceful and intelligent dissent all of his life, Havel, inspired people inside and outside Europe and supported them in their strife for liberty and a democratic society. He watched the velvet dissolution of the common state of the Czechs and Slovaks, but never stopped caring for the oppressed and the less fortunate.
President Havel founded the Forum 2000, which brings the world intelligentsia together for few days to discuss global issues. This year was the largest by far in all measurement, and was opened by a video greeting from his old friend, Aung San Suu Kyi.
His latest theater play was filmed and showed in film theaters this March. The curtain dropped one last time, he went quietly, in sleep, this morning.
Václave, may your soul rest in peace!
The remembering
European Democrat Students
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