New Delhi: Mounting pressure on the government to take a strong stand on death sentence given to Saddam Hussain, the CPI asked it to outrightly reject the tribunal's verdict and demand that the judgement be revoked.
"The Government of India has been very mild in its initial reaction. It must now come out with an outright rejection of the tribunal's verdict and demand that the death sentence be cancelled," the CPI Central Secretariat said in a statement on Monday.
Asking its state units to organise protests against the sentence, it said the US ‘occupation army’ set up the ‘so-called’ tribunal, which awarded the death sentence after a ‘charade of a trial’.
Even independent observers like a former US Attorney General have called this exercise as "a farce of a trial", the CPI said, adding that the verdict amounted to judicial assassination under the shadow of army occupation and a puppet government.
The CPI said "it can only further divide and break up the Iraqi people and the nation and unleash a civil conflict with a fallout in the entire West Asia".
The CPI(M) had termed the sentence as ‘rigged’ and asked the UPA government to intervene to get the verdict rescinded. "This is nothing but a totally rigged verdict delivered after a farcical trial," it had said noting that some of the lawyers representing Saddam Hussain were murdered and the Chief Judge was changed twice in the course of the trial.
The party asked the UPA government to categorically condemn "this judicial travesty. It must actively intervene to get this sentence rescinded".
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