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WORLD NEWS Wednesday 2 august 2017

Poles commemorate Warsaw Uprising on 73rd anniversary

By VANESSA GERA and killing around 200,000
Associated Press people, most of them civil-
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Si- ians. Soviet troops who had
rens wailed across Poland’s arrived on the outskirts of
capital on Tuesday as the Warsaw in their westward
country marked the 73rd push against Adolf Hitler’s
anniversary of the Warsaw forces remained on the
Uprising, a doomed revolt city’s outskirts without help-
against the occupying Ger- ing the Poles who were sup-
mans during World War II. posed to be their allies. The
Sirens sounded for about Red Army’s inaction was
two minutes starting at 5 viewed as a deep betrayal.
p.m., the hour the 1944 U.S. President Donald
uprising began, bringing Trump paid homage to
traffic mostly to a standstill the “desperate struggle to
while people stopped to overthrow oppression” dur-
pay respect to the Poles ing a July 6 visit to Warsaw.
who fought and died. Trump recalled that the
President Andrzej Duda, Soviets “watched as the
veterans, scouts and oth- Nazis ruthlessly destroyed
ers took part in ceremonies, the city, viciously murder-
as did several thousand A man wears period costume as people stand on the city’s main intersection holding burning ing men, women and chil-
far-right extremists who flares to commemorate the 73rd anniversary of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising in Warsaw, Poland, dren.”
marched through Warsaw. Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2017. Thousands of residents opened an uneven struggle on Aug. 1, 1944 in an The 1944 uprising by the Pol-
The German Embassy in effort to liberate the city from the Nazis and take control ahead of the advancing Soviet Red Army. ish resistance came more
Warsaw flew its flags — a (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz) than a year after Jews con-
German and a European up arms against the pow- crushed the revolt. national liberation remains fined to the Warsaw Ghet-
Union flag — at half-staff to erful Nazi forces, hoping It was the largest act of re- a defining element in Polish to and about to be sent to
honor the victims. to liberate the city before sistance in any nation un- national identity. death camps took up arms
The Warsaw Uprising broke the arrival of the Soviet Red der German occupation The Germans suppressed against the Nazis. That re-
out August 1, 1944, with the Army. They held out for 63 during the war. The heroism the rebellion brutally, de- volt also ended in tragedy
Polish underground taking days before the Germans of insurgents who fought for stroying most of Warsaw for the Jews.q

Xi says China will never permit loss of ‘any piece’ of land

By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN Liberation Army, which has members gathered at the ment interests.” disputed border high in the
Associated Press formed a key pillar of sup- hulking Great Hall of the Xi made no reference to Himalayas, with Chinese
BEIJING (AP) — Chinese port for the ruling Commu- People, the seat of the leg- any specific conflicts or dis- spokesmen demanding
President Xi Jinping issued a nist Party since 1927 and is islature that sits beside Ti- putes during his address, that Indian troops withdraw
tough line on national sov- the world’s largest stand- ananmen Square. which focused largely on to avoid a clash potentially
ereignty Tuesday amid mul- ing military, with 2.3 million “We absolutely will not per- the PLA’s growth from a worse than the brief but
tiple territorial disputes with members. mit any person, any orga- scrappy guerrilla force bloody war the two fought
his country’s neighbors, “The Chinese people trea- nization, any political party fighting Chiang Kai-shek’s in the region in 1962.
saying China will never per- sure peace and we ab- — at any time, in any form Nationalists and Japanese China has also long been
mit the loss of “any piece” solutely do not engage in — to separate any piece invaders into one of the embroiled in a contest with
of its land to outsiders. invasion and expansion. of Chinese territory from world’s most powerful, if Japan over East China Sea
Xi’s declaration came However, we have the China,” Xi said to applause. largely untested, militaries. islands, as well as with five
during a nearly one-hour confidence to conquer all “No one should expect us However, China is currently other governments over
speech in Beijing marking forms of invasion,” Xi told to swallow the bitter fruit of engaged in a weeks-long competing claims to terri-
the 90th anniversary of the government leaders and damage to our sovereign- border standoff with Indian tory in the strategically vital
founding of the People’s current and retired PLA ty, security and develop- forces near the countries’ South China Sea. q