Mock funeral held for Bush in Hyderabad

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Mar 2, 2006
Mock funeral held for Bush in Hyderabad
Thursday March 2 2006 00:00 IST

HYDERABAD: Protests in Andhra Pradesh against US President George W. Bush's visit to India were intensified on Wednesday, with communist parties and Muslim groups organising his mock funeral and an expo on "US terrorism". Hundreds of workers of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) took out a mock funeral procession.

Shouting slogans like "Down with Bush" and "Bush warmonger go back", the activists carried an 'arthi' or effigy on their shoulders and later set it afire. Women were seen beating the effigy with slippers.
The CPI-M and the Communist Party of India, along with other Left parties and their affiliated trade unions and bodies for youths, students and women also held a rally and set afire Bush's effigy. Bush is scheduled to visit the Andhra Pradesh capital on Friday as part of his three-day visit to India.

The communists, who have already launched a signature campaign against Bush's visit, also unveiled posters that depict the US president as a "warmonger". One of the posters showed Bush's hands stained with blood. In another protest, an expo titled "Silent Screams" also began here Wednesday. Organised by the Students Islamic Organisation (SIO), the students' wing of the Jamaat-e-Islami, the expo highlights what it describes as "US terrorism".

The expo has over 300 pictures depicting maimed men, women and children, and houses destroyed in US bombing in Iraq and Afghanistan, the abuse of prisoners at the Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay jails, 50 cartoons lampooning Bush and his war on terrorism, and quotes from Western analysts criticising Bush's policies.

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Haq, however, clarified the protest was not aimed against the American people. "We are with the peace loving people of America and other countries who are opposing Bush's inhuman foreign policy," he said.

Thanks for the post.

Could there really be people somewhere in the world who feel as we do? People who understand the relationship between dictator and peasant, and where your Country becomes your prison?

Those people know us.

Blaze

I work all over the world and hear the same conversation starter, "I/we have nothing against the American people, but your President ..."

BTW I worked in Hyderabad once. How's that for getting around.