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Former Polish leader Lech Walesa today finished giving evidence in the trial of the country’s ex-military ruler General Wojciech Jaruzelski for his part in the murder of 44 protesters in 1970.

PROSECUTORS filed charges yesterday against Poland’s last communist leader, General Wojciech Jaruzelski, in connection with his imposition of martial law in 1981 as the Soviet -backed regime tried to crush the Solidarity pro-democracy movement.

YOUNG political activists demonstrated yesterday 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.

Poland's last communist leader, General Wojciech Jaruzelski, is due in court charged with ordering the shooting deaths of 44 shipyard workers.