Warsaw - Poland's last communist-era leader, Gen Wojciech Jaruzelski, appeared in court yesterday to fight accusations that he was responsible for a massacre of protesting workers in 1970.
The ageing general, who 11 years later imposed martial law to crush the independent Solidarity trade union, was to hear if the Warsaw court would officially reopen his trial or ask prosecutors to gather more evidence as requested by his defence lawyers. The court decided to answer the defence motion tomorrow.