The remains of general Wladyslaw Sikorski, wartime Polish army
commander and exile government head, were exhumed today pending
examination by experts investigating the causes of his 1943 death.
Poland\\'s National Remembrance Institute (IPN), which ordered the exhumation, hopes specialist tests on Sikorski\\'s remains help ascertain the causes of his death.
This afternoon Sikorski\\'s coffin decked by a Polish flag was transported from its resting place in Cracow\\'s Wawel Cathedral to a forensic centre where the general\\'s body will undergo DNA, toxicological and other tests.
In the inter-war years Sikorski was Polish prime minister (1922- 23) and defence minister (1923-24). Politically sidelined after a May, 1926 government overthrow by Poland\\'s leader Jozef Pilsudski, he became known as an author of books on military strategy and international relations.
During world war two Sikorski was prime minister in Poland\\'s London-based exile government and commander of the Polish armed forces.
Speculations after his 1943 death included a theory that he had been killed by the Soviets. MB
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