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@article{35030, author = {Žáček, Pavel}, article_location = {Praha}, article_number = {1 (36)}, keywords = {student demonstration; Ministry of the Interior; State Security; Special Purposes Section; Public Security; National Security Corps; Trainee Emergency Brigade; Emergency Regiment; emergency security measures; November 17 1989}, language = {eng}, issn = {1804-1612}, journal = {Securitas Imperii}, title = {The Emergency Security Measures and „Operation Student“. An Overview of the Activities of SNB Units and Troops of the Ministry of the Interior on November 17, 1989}, url = {http://www.ustrcr.cz/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/SI_36_s230-274.pdf}, volume = {2020}, year = {2020} }
TY - JOUR ID - 35030 AU - Žáček, Pavel PY - 2020 TI - The Emergency Security Measures and „Operation Student“. An Overview of the Activities of SNB Units and Troops of the Ministry of the Interior on November 17, 1989 JF - Securitas Imperii VL - 2020 IS - 1 (36) SP - 230-274 EP - 230-274 PB - Ústav pro studium totalitních režimů SN - 18041612 KW - student demonstration KW - Ministry of the Interior KW - State Security KW - Special Purposes Section KW - Public Security KW - National Security Corps KW - Trainee Emergency Brigade KW - Emergency Regiment KW - emergency security measures KW - November 17 1989 UR - http://www.ustrcr.cz/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/SI_36_s230-274.pdf N2 - The intervention by the communist security forces on November 17, 1989, as part of an emergency security operation and the security measures codenamed “Student”, carried out in the centre of Prague and especially on Národní Street was to become a milestone in modern Czechoslovak history. The operation, whose objective was to prevent the student demonstration from moving to the centre of the capital, was led by the Head Commander of the Municipal Directorate of the National Security Corps, Colonel Michal Danišovič, and the main public order unit was the Trainee Emergency Brigade under the command of Major Bedřich Houbal, complemented by forcesfrom the Special Purposes Section, State Security officers, four reserves from the local District National Corps Offices and other support and auxiliary units. As a reserve unit, which eventually played a key role in controlling the movement of the demonstrators and the operation as a whole, there was a professional operation unit – the Public Security Emergency Regiment under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Břetislav Zdráhala. Both units surrounded the core of the demonstrators on Národní Street, pushing them from both sides after a brutal intervention and the de-ployment of two armoured vehicles and eventually forcing them into a side street and scattering them. A dramatic role in this was played by members of the anti-terrorist squad headed by Major Petr Šesták who, in cooperation with secret police officers, selected individuals from among the demonstrators and, like the intervention squad members, brutally beat them with batons in the archway of Kaňkův Palace. The disproportionately harsh response by the security forces gradually led to the downfall of the communist totalitarian regime in Czechoslovakia. ER -
ŽÁČEK, Pavel. The Emergency Security Measures and „Operation Student“. An Overview of the Activities of SNB Units and Troops of the Ministry of the Interior on November 17, 1989. \textit{Securitas Imperii}. Praha: Ústav pro studium totalitních režimů, 2020, roč.~2020, 1 (36), s.~230-274. ISSN~1804-1612.
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