The Hindu : A barbaric aggression: CPI(M)

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Sunday, Mar 23, 2003

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A barbaric aggression: CPI(M)

By Our Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI MARCH 22. The Communist Party of India (Marxist) has charged that the United States, in the name of liberty, freedom and dignity, has mounted a "barbaric aggression to destroy these values that should have shaped the future of human civilisation''.

"The U.S. imperialism is turning back history to well beyond the third millennium BC. The savagery and barbarism that dictated the social ordering in antiquity is being brought back with a vengeance behind the smokescreen of `modern civilisation''', an editorial in the latest edition of the CPI(M) organ, People's Democracy, said.

It was amply clear that the U.S. imperialist aggression was devoid of any rationale except that of establishing "unquestioned U.S. hegemony" on the world.

It said all excuses advanced by the U.S. had turned out to be specious and even the objective of controlling the oil resources in the region was only part of the story.

"The real meaning of this war is to send a clear signal to the world that no one dare take any position of opposition to U.S. imperialism''. The ramifications of the American quest were "indeed ominous and elaborated on four of its potential consequences, re-ordering the international situation, systematically destroying institutional frameworks, that in a new world order no regime that is independent and sovereign would be allowed to continue and that the aggression against Iraq was only going to feed the vicious circle of State terrorism provoking individual terrorism. "This, in turn, will be used by reactionary regimes to impose an authoritarian order in their countries. In the name of fighting terrorism, draconian laws severely curtailing civil liberties and democratic rights will be put in place. All in the name of democracy !'', the editorial said.

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