US imperialism must be made to pay for its crimes against humanity!

Statement of the Communist Ghadar Party of India, December 31, 2006

Saddam Hussein, former President of Iraq, was hanged to death on December 30, 2006, immediately after a farce of a trial orchestrated by the puppet regime operating on behalf of the US imperialist occupation forces. The Communist Ghadar Party of India joins the millions of other Indian people, parties and organisations in condemning this barbaric act by a power which sits in illegal occupation of Iraq and is guilty of the greatest crimes against humanity.

Iraq under President Saddam Hussein was attacked by US imperialism not because he was a dictator as the US imperialists make out, but because his regime refused to fall in line with the US strategy to control and dominate that region and the world. He was hanged because the Iraqi people under him defied the might of US imperialism for decades, braving years of debilitating sanctions and literally mocking its attempts to bring them to their knees. Unleashing a barrage of patent falsehoods about his possessing weapons of mass destruction and being a danger to world peace, the Anglo-American imperialists launched a devastating invasion of Iraq. Saddam Hussein was hanged because even after he was deposed and imprisoned, the masses of the Iraqi people refused to accept the dictate of US imperialism and continue to wage a fierce struggle against the occupying forces and their allies, and the US imperialists feared that Saddam Hussein could be a rallying point for all those opposed to the occupation. His hanging was a cowardly and vengeful act of a bloodthirsty occupying power.

The Communist Ghadar Party of India declares that it is the leaders of US imperialism and British imperialism, George Bush and Tony Blair, who must be tried in an international court for the most grave crimes against humanity!. They must be put on trial for aggression and violation of the sovereignty of Iraq, Afghanistan, and other countries, in blatant contravention of international law. They must be brought to book for using deceit and intrigue to falsely malign other governments and states to prepare the conditions for aggression. They must be held accountable for the killings of more than 600,000 Iraqi people since the invasion, and lakhs more before that, and for cynically organising bloody sectarian strife in Iraq. From the torture chambers of Abu Ghraib to the massacres of Fallujah, the crimes of the US occupation in Iraq have exceeded all belief.

When it has suited the interests of US imperialism, they have supported and continue to support with every means at their disposal all kinds of tyrants and despots who have the blood of thousands of their countrymen on their hands. Then what right do these imperialists have to justify the hanging of Saddam Hussein in the name of “democracy” and “humanity”?

This outrageous act of US imperialism has only exposed it even more in front of the world's people as the most dangerous and perfidious force the world has ever known. It will not succeed in quelling the courageous resistance struggle by the Iraqi freedom fighters who are determined to win back their country's independence and sovereignty. Not just in Iraq, but all around the world, including in the US and Britain, the tide of opposition to the criminal invasion and occupation of Iraq is growing. In their reaction to the hanging of Saddam Hussein, the Indian people too have once again shown their unequivocal opposition to the US imperialist crimes in Iraq and their solidarity with the brave Iraqi people. The UPA government should listen to this powerful voice of our people and desist from trying to align itself ever more closely with such a bloodthirsty and treacherous power.

Down with US imperialism!

Condemn the hanging of Saddam Hussein!

Make the imperialists pay for their crimes against humanity!