Poles Observe Grim Martial Law Anniversary
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Young political activists demonstrated Monday outside the home of Poland's last communist-era leader, whom some condemned and others praised on the anniversary of his imposing martial law in 1981.
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BBC News Online speaks to Holocaust survivors as Poland remembers the terrible fate of the Lodz ghetto.
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MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan  - Pakistan united in mourning on Sunday in memory of about 73,000 people killed in an earthquake exactly a year ago, while survivors vented frustration over the pace of reconstruction.
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OSWIECIM, Poland  - Dusted by falling snow and  surrounded by barbed wire, world leaders mourned the victims of  the Holocaust on Thursday, the 60th anniversary of the  liberation of the biggest Nazi death camp at  Auschwitz-Birkenau.
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Eastern Europe's lions in winter have rediscovered their roar. When Ukraine descended into postelection chaos this week, the most stirring pleas for a peaceful resolution came not from Washington but from Warsaw and Prague.
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Andrzej Krawczyk was arrested on a  Warsaw street in 1982 with a backpack containing 1,000  pro-democracy leaflets protesting against martial law and the  communist crackdown on the Solidarity trade union.
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Poles lit candles and laid flowers Tuesday at the grave of pro-Solidarity priest Jerzy Popieluszko, abducted and killed by the communist secret police 20 years ago in a murder described in parliament as "one of the last acts of terror" by the former regime.
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"I think that many of us feel that this lustration is a Polish version of McCarthyism"  This should be a time for Solidarity veterans to savor.Eighteen years after the collapse of Polish communism, two of their own are perched at the pinnacle of power: Lech and Jaroslaw Kaczynski, identical twins who once advised Solidarity founder Lech Walesa.But instead of relishing their rise, many of the movement's leading activists _ including Walesa himself _ have turned against the Kaczynskis and joined forces with their old enemies, the former communists.They aim to create 'a coalition in defense of democracy in Poland,' said Bronislaw Geremek, an adviser to the Solidarity movement who was foreign minister in the 1997-2000 Solidarity-led government. Read more
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Ukraine this week marks the anniversary of   one of World War Two's most notorious wartime massacres,   reflecting on a key stage in Nazi Germany's plan to kill off   European Jewry and on persisting anti-Semitism at home.
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Elderly residents of Dresden have relived the night 60 years ago when their city was destroyed in a devastating air raid and condemned moves by Germany's far right to hijack the anniversary.
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LODZ, Poland  - Holocaust survivors and their families gathered at one of Europe's largest Jewish cemeteries Sunday to remember more than 200,000 Jews from this city killed by the Nazis, a ceremony marking the 60th anniversary of the last transports from the Lodz ghetto to Hitler's death camps.
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Ukraine this week marks the anniversary of  one of World War Two's most notorious wartime massacres,  reflecting on a key stage in Nazi Germany's plan to kill off  European Jewry and on persisting anti-Semitism at home.
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Poland's president on Wednesday led muted ceremonies marking the 25th anniversary of the declaration of martial law by communist-era authorities as prosecutors pushed ahead with a case against the former leader ...Comment
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A local authority has erected road signs in Polish to cater for growing numbers of immigrants from the central European country, but critics have branded the initiative &quot;bonkers.&quot;
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An anti-terrorism law that allows Polish authorities to shoot down hijacked planes as a last resort took effect Thursday, part of efforts to protect the country from attacks similar to those of Sept. 11.
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About 20,000 Poles took part in rival demonstrations in the capital on Saturday over whether the ruling conservatives, who are struggling to form a coalition, should call a snap election.
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Thousands marched through the streets of the Polish capital Saturday, calling for new elections and the ouster of the government after weeks of political turmoil.