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THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Communist Party of India (Marxist) general secretary Prakash Karat on Sunday asked the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Government to condemn the capital punishment awarded to the former Iraqi President, Saddam Hussein, and explore ways to get it nullified. "This is an outrageous decision, a rigged verdict from a trial that was a farce. We want the UPA Government to categorically condemn this verdict and use all avenues possible to get it nullified," Mr. Karat said at a news conference here. The verdict, he said, was meant only to raise the stocks of U.S. President George W.Bush who is facing tough Congressional elections.
Little credibility
Mr. Karat said the trial had little credibility as it took place under an occupation government and in a court set up by the occupation regime. During the two-year trial, two chief judges were changed, apparently because they did not follow the script, and the third one handed down the verdict. Defence lawyers were killed during the trial and the Iraqi Prime Minister was on record saying that he wanted to see Saddam Hussein shot. The whole responsibility for the verdict, therefore, lay with the United States.
To protest
The CPI (M) would organise demonstrations and other programmes across the country on Monday to protest against the verdict. Mr. Karat saw no reason why the UPA Government could not condemn the sentence and pointed out that the U.S. aggression of Iraq had been condemned unanimously by Parliament. When a reporter pointed out that the Iraqi Communist Party had welcomed the sentence, Mr. Karat said anybody could claim to be the communist party but he did not think a party that allied with the U.S. could claim to be a communist party.
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