One minute of silence today to mark 20th anniversary of Martial Law

The Sejm will today commemorate with one minute of silence the 20th anniversary of the introduction of Martial Law in Poland. Earlier plans to mark the anniversary with a resolution failed, after they met with opposition from the Polish Families League (LPR). The disagreement concerned the phrasing of the resolution, with the LPR insisting on its own wording, which would have blamed Martial Law on "red vassals who were ready to impose Eastern dictatorship on Poles at any cost." According to the Konwent Seniorow, a cross-party grouping of senior deputies, a resolution would only make sense if all the Parliamentary parties supported it. President Aleksander Kwasniewski is to make a speech commemorating the anniversary, but his Office refused to disclose any details of what he would say. (Gazeta Wyborcza, p. 4; Zycie, p. 1) M.T.K.