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Grzegorz Januszko (father of Natalia Januszko, Smolensk crash victim) has sent 10 questions to the Polish governmental Jerzy Miller Committee (working under the control of Prime Minister Donald Tusk) and to the independent parliamentary team of experts chaired by Antoni Macierewicz. Both sides, with different perceptions have drafted and prepared their answers.
Grzegorz Januszko (father of Natalia Januszko, Smolensk crash victim) sent 10 questions concerning the Smolensk crash to members of the Polish governmental Jerzy Miller Committee set up to investigate the cause of the crash (working under the control of Prime Minister Donald Tusk). He has also addressed the same set of questions to the independent parliamentary team of experts chaired by Antoni Macierewicz. Both sides, with totally different perceptions of the crash have drafted and prepared their answers. This was the first confrontation of this type, so far conducted only in the form of an exchange of views by correspondence. We hope that in the future a face-to-face discussion between both parties will be possible. Below please find the answers provided by both teams.
Personal note from Grzegorz Januszko:
"For over three years now the families have been caught in a no-mans land between two entrenched groups, presenting conflicting versions. I think most families would welcome a meeting between experts, and accept whatever their findings. I have sent 10 questions to experts on both sides hoping they could sit round a table together and establish objectively ascertainable facts in the sphere of material science, aerodynamics etc.
At first some in government circles tried to ridicule the experts who have asked difficult questions, but what started as a trickle is now a flood and the matter can not be wished or washed away.
If some proposals such as the setting up of a website to 'dispel misinformation' or the hiring of a PR agency come to fruition then it will be money wasted and will only serve to deepen suspicion. If people from such diverse backgrounds could board the same plane then it would be an insult to their memory if academics and scientists could not sit down and debate together.
Enough new evidence has come to light in the last few years to suggest that the conclusions contained both in the MAK report and the Polish official governmental report were at best flawed, incomplete and at worst a whitewash. Surely there is a role for the international community and international institutions. Both in terms of providing moral support and exerting pressure on the Russian Federation to show greater openness and transparency. I cannot understand those who claim that it is a 'bilateral matter' between Poland and Russia. If so, what is the point of international institutions and of our membership in them?"
- Grzeogrz Januszko
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