Proclamation Of Austerlitz

Napoleonic News Desk

by Paul Chamberlain

The Central European Napoleonic Society (C.E.N.S) are protesting against the intent to build the NATO military radar site on the Prace (Pratzen) heights. They are protesting against any construction activity which would in any way disturb the appearance of the locality and the surrounding landscape.

C.E.N.S. say that thousands of people consider the history as something more than just a blink of the past. The Prace heights and the Piece Monument are the place of the highest piety, the place which honours hundreds of thousands dead of the Napoleonic Wars 200 years ago.

C.E.N.S. believe the heights and the Monument must continue to serve as place of piety and meditation and not as the radar site for which there are certainly many more suitable localities in the surrounding landscape than the preserved monument zone.

C.E.N.S. are calling everybody to support their endeavours to change the decision and to stop any construction activities of the similar character in the area of the preserved Austerlitz battlefield zone and its close proximity.

Napoleonic News Desk

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