Posted on 01/18/2004 3:05:18 AM PST by Tailgunner Joe
BOMBAY: Writer Arundhati Roy, who wants an ongoing anti-globalisation conference to launch a campaign to shut down US companies, said Sunday she hoped President George W Bush would share the fate of the captured Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.
"If Saddam Hussein deserves to be humiliated and have his fillings counted and his hair checked for lice on primetime TV, then so does George Bush," Roy told about 100 people at a leftist convention on the sidelines of the World Social Forum.
"Saddam Hussein surely ought to be tried for crimes against humanity. But so should all his accomplices in the US and Europe," she said.
"To applaud the US army's capture of Saddam Hussein and therefore justify its invasion and occupation of Iraq is like deifying Jack the Ripper for disembowelling the Boston Strangler," Roy said.
The winner of the 1997 Booker Prize for The God of Small Things was speaking at ‘Mumbai Resistance’, an alternative convention in Bombay of around 2,000 leftists who view the World Social Forum as too moderate.
Roy is also taking part in the World Social Forum, which she co-inaugurated Friday with a call for the 100,000 anti-globalisation activists to pick two US companies engaged in the Iraq war and launch a campaign to shut them down.
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