Widespread condemnation for Saddam's execution

Patna, Dec 30 (UNI) Dubbing as ''barbaric'' the hanging of former Iraq President Saddam Hussein, Left parties and Muslim organisations today held demonstrations across the state and burnt effigies of US President George Bush.

While condemning the execution, senior CPI(ML) leader K D Yadav described it as ''US hegemony with scant regard for sovereignty and laws of the other countries.'' ''Our party demands the immediate withdrawal of US forces from all parts of the world, including Afghanistan and Iraq,'' Mr Yadav,a member of the central committee of the party said.

Mr Bush should be hanged for the killings of thousands of people during the US bombing in Iraq during the Gulf war.

''The entire process of Saddam's trial was engulfed with controversies as judges were changed several times while the judge who ordered the execution of the former Iraqi president, was a rubber stamp of the United States of America,'' he maintained.

State Committee of the CPI(M) also condemned the incident and described it as the ''hegemony of imperial forces led by the US''.

The execution of Saddam would lead to an upsurge of hatred against the US among the Arab people'' the party said, adding even the people of Iraq would revolt against the puppet government installed there by the US.

The All India United Muslim Morcha described it as ''Bushism'' and as being far ahead in cruelty and hatred against mankind than that of 'Hitlarism', which had reigned terror during the second World War.

The president of the morcha Dr Ejaj Ali called upon the common man and intelligentsia to formulate a strategy to contain the ugly head of 'Bushism' otherwise it would soon spell doom for humanity.

The Samajwadi Party, Nationalist Congress Party and Socialist Unity Centre of India also condemned the execution of Saddam Hussein.

Reports of protest against the execution of the ousted Iraqi President were also receieved from different areas of the state.

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