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United Kingdom Former Czech president and anti-communist hero Vaclav Havel dies
Published on 18/12/2011
Vaclav Havel, Czech dissident playwright who would become his country's first democratically elected president, has died. Havel oversaw his country's transition to democracy and the peaceful breakup of Czechoslovakia.