Warsaw protest against Jaruzelski

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.

Banners outside General Wojciech Jaruzelski’s home in Warsaw read: “Here lives a communist criminal” and “Jaruzelski, we remember your crimes.”

On December 13, 1981, Poles awoke to find Mr Jaruzelski’s government had imposed martial law.

Thousands were imprisoned before it was lifted on July 22, 1983.