Czesław Kiszczak's funeral without honours

Minister of Defense, Tomasz Siemoniak said that communist era internal minister Czesław Kiszczak will be buried without official military honors and won't be given a burial plot at Warsaw's historic Powązki Cemetery, where the Alley of Merit is located. “The funeral will not be attended by the Minister of National Defence or any other official representative of the ministry,” a statement said. Czesław Kiszczak was the last communist Prime Minister and one of the masterminds behind the introduction of martial law in Poland in 1981. He passed away on Thursday after a long illness.