Tragedy for Poland
Some of you may have already read that a plane heading for Russia crashed with no survivors. What makes this different from other tragic plane crashes is that it held the senior leadership of Poland to include the President Lech Kaczynski.
The crash devastated the upper echelons of Poland’s political and military establishments. On board were the army chief of staff, the navy chief commander, and heads of the air and land forces. Also killed were the national bank president, deputy foreign minister, army chaplain, head of the National Security Office, deputy parliament speaker, Olympic Committee head, civil rights commissioner and at least two presidential aides and three lawmakers, the Polish foreign ministry said.
So this is going to be complicated in how Poland will react will to the sudden loss of these people.
Rossiya-24 showed hundreds of people around the Katyn monument, many holding Polish flags, some weeping.
Poland’s parliament speaker, the acting president, declared a week of national mourning. Tusk called for two minutes of silence at noon (1000GMT) Sunday.
“The contemporary world has not seen such a tragedy,” he said.
Category: Breaking News, Foreign Policy
Besides the Polish President, government ministers, clergy and the Heads of the Polish Armed Forces, several dozen family Members of Katyn Massacre victims were aboard.
Yep, there are so many issues this is going to change, from the problems with the jets to the way Russia-Poland diplomatic ties. I do not think that any nation in the West has suffered anything like this in a long time.
The Poles are some of the most resilient people on the earth they will somehow get by. I just wish our current administration hadn’t sold them out…
I give it till Monday for the Truthers to start blaming Bush.
My sympathies to those who lost leaders, but more importantly, to those that personally lost loved ones in this tragic accident.
Still shocked by the tragedy of my motherland. And its irony.
Also, as a note to the included article, which states that some call this Poland’s worst tragedy since WW2. For those of you who do not know, I was born in Kielce, Poland. One of my country’s little-known secrets was dubbed the “Kielce Pogrom” – ” an outbreak of violence against the Jewish community of Kielce, Poland on July 4, 1946. It was perpetrated by a mob of local townsfolk, including police and soldiers. Following a false tale of child kidnapping, including allegations of blood libel which led to a police investigation, violence broke out which resulted in 42 Jews being murdered and 40 more injured, out of about 200 Holocaust survivors who after the war had returned to the town from German Nazi concentration camps and elsewhere.” (Wikipedia). This serves only as food for thought.