Riot Police Acquitted in 1981 Shooting of Strikers
From Times Wire Reports
A court acquitted 22 former riot police charged with gunning down striking miners during the old Communist regime’s 1981 crackdown on the Solidarity movement.
The verdict in the southern city of Katowice ended a two-year trial. The defendants were accused of killing nine miners at the Wujek and Manifest Lipcowy mines on Dec. 16, 1981.
The workers had barricaded themselves in the mines to protest the crackdown and the jailing of Solidarity leaders. Prosecutor Piotr Skrzynecki said he would appeal.
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