KOLKATA, India - Tens of thousands of communists marched in the Indian city of Kolkata on Thursday demanding that Saddam Hussein’s death sentence be lifted. India’s left parties, which won a record number of parliamentary seats in the 2004 elections, have a long history of opposing American foreign policy and have held huge protests in recent years against US military action in Afghanistan and Iraq.Protesters shouted “Hang Bush and Blair, release Saddam” as they marched in the heart of Kolkata, capital of the communist-ruled state of West Bengal. Activists also burnt an effigy of US President George W. Bush. “They changed the judge and rigged the trial completely,” Biman Bose, a communist leader said.
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