TRIBUTE TO POLISH PRESIDENT LECH KACZYNSKI AND
HIGH LEVEL DELEGATION
Polish president Lech kaczynski and a high level delegation were killed when a plane carrying 97 people crashed in thick fog as it was approaching a Russian airport on Sunday morning 10th April 2010.
Russian authorities said there were no survivors in the catastrophe. Russian investigators suspect pilot error as the cause of the crash. Mr Kacxynski, 60 was on his way to a memorial service at Katyan, near snolensk, where polish army officers were executed on the orders of soviet dictator Joseph Stalin 70 years ago during world war two.
In a televised address to the people of Poland, Russian president Dimitry medvedev said he was shocked by the death of the polish president. The crash is a tragedy it wiped out the cream of its elite. Along with the president and his wife, dozens of top officials including the Army chief of staff and several senior military officials, the head of the country's central Bank, a deputy speaker of parliament and a deputy foreign minister.
Poland has declared a week's official mourning to mark the accident which has devastated the upper echelons of the country's political and military establishment.
Tens of thousands of poles softly sang the national anthem and tossed flowers at the hearse carrying the body of president Lech kazynski. The plane carrying the presidents body arrived from the Smolensk airport, where he and 95 other had been leading Saturday to honour 22,000 polish officers slain by soviet secret police in 1940 in the wester soviet union.
Prof. John Kurakar
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