General Tomáš SedláÄek, a World War II veteran who spent nine years in communist jails, died on Monday aged 94. A respected soldier, he fought both on the western and eastern fronts of the war before landing a life sentence by CzechoslovakiaÂ’s communist court. But his faith in freedom and democracy never waivered, and after 1989, he took up the cause of those who suffered under communism. A military career seemed to be on the cards for Tomáš SedláÄek from an early age: born in Vienna in 1918 into a family of an army officer, he left school at sixteen...