100,000 Indian communists protest against death sentence for Saddam Hussein

The Associated Press

Some 100,000 Indian Communist Party members took to the streets of Calcutta on Thursday protesting the death sentence handed to former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. The protesters called Hussein's trial a farce and condemned U.S. President George W. Bush and U.S. policies in the Mideast. An Iraqi court earlier this month convicted Saddam for the killings of some 150 Shiite Muslims after an assassination attempt against him in 1982. Addressing the rally, Biman Bose, a party leader, accused the U.S. of repeatedly violating the sovereignty of developing nations...

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