Czech leader Havel mourned

  • 12 years ago
Thousands of people in the Czech Republic have paid their last respects to Vaclav Havel, the country's former president.

Leaders from around the world joined the mourners at a state funeral in Prague on Friday.

Havel led the 1989 "velvet revolution" that ended four decades of communist rule.

Al Jazeera's Tania Page reports from Prague, in the Czech Republic.