Skinheads Fear Attacks from Anarchists, Police during IMF Meeting http://www.centraleurope.com/czechtoday/news.php3?id=198678 PRAGUE, Sep 13, 2000 -- (CTK - Czech News Agency) Members of the far right skinhead group National Resistance, who are planning on September 23 to hold a demonstration on Prague's Letna plain against the IMF and World Bank meetings, scheduled for later this month, say they fear both police and anti-IMF anarchists will attack them. "It is likely, or rather, 100 percent certain that if there is going to be such a large number of them in Prague, they will certainly try to disrupt our action violently," far right movement supporter Filip Vavra told CTK today, referring to anarchists and police. Vavra said that the demonstration on Letna, being planned by the National Resistance, National Alliance, Patriotic Republican Party and Defense of the Nation far right Czech ultra-nationalist groups would not be violent, while he accused left wing activists of planning to carry out violence. He also said that anyone who tried to disrupt their demonstration would be violating the law. Inciting racial or ethnic hatred and propagating extreme movements, such as racism and fascism, whose aim is clearly to suppress people's civil rights, are forbidden by law in the Czech Republic, like in many of the countries of the European Union, which the Czech Republic is seeking to join. Besides the nearly 20,000 official delegates who will take part in the annual meetings of the IMF and World Bank in Prague later this year, around the same number of opponents of economic globalization are also being predicted. Prague officials, therefore, are stepping up security. ((c) 2000 CTK - Czech News Agency)
