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A POLISH commission set up to prosecute “crimes of communism” is seeking to disinter 194 socialist-era figures from a Warsaw cemetery, claiming that a mass grave of political prisoners lies beneath.
Andrzej Arseniuk, spokesman for the Institute of National Remembrance — Commission for the Prosecution of Crimes against the Polish Nation (IPN), said yesterday that a motion to dig up the graves in Warsaw’s military Powazki cemetery has been filed with the provincial governor, who will negotiate with the families.
The IPN claims that it hopes to find the remains of some 100 prisoners who were allegedly killed at a prison in the capital and then secretly dumped in an unmarked mass grave between 1945 and 1956.
The institute was set up by the Polish parliament in 1998 to make pre-1990 secret service documents available to the public. It claims to be independent of the government.
