His Holiness the Dalai Lama Offers Condolences to the People of Poland[Monday, 12 April 2010, 12:37 p.m.]

Lech Kaczynski (18 June 1949 – 10 April 2010)

Zurich: His
Holiness the Dalai Lama offered his condolences to the people of Poland
for the loss of President Kaczynski, and all the others who died in a
tragic air crash in a letter to the Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk
sent on 10th April, 2010.His Holiness “recalled having been
privileged to meet the President when he visited Poland and expressed
his admiration for the late President’s dedication to the cause of
freedom, democracy and human rights”.President Lech Kaczynski,
60, and other senior figures including Poland’s army chief, central
bank governor, MPs and military heads were among the 97 people on board
the plane that crashed in thick fog in Smolensk, Russia. The mishap
occurred when the president and his entourage were travelling to Russia
to take part in the official commemoration ceremony of the 70th
anniversary of the Katyn massacre.