New Delhi: Charging the US with writing "a new chapter on inhuman brutality" in Iraq, the CPM (Communist Party of India-Marxist) today (Nov 18, 2004) asked the Government to seek immediate intervention of the United Nations to end "barbarity" in the West Asian nation.

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"To remain silent now is tantamount to acquiescing with US imperialism's designs of global hegemony. The historic Iraqi resistance against this occupation must receive international support and solidarity", the party organ 'People's Democracy' said in an editorial, adding India "must move the UN to urgently intervene to end this inhuman barbarity".

"US imperialism's murderous assault on the historic city of Fallujah continues unabated. The incendiary war unleashed by the US against Iraq and its people is all set to write a new chapter on inhuman brutality", it said.

"Worse" was the fact that in the holy month of Ramzan, "there was not a single call to prayer" in Fallujah, a city of 150 mosques.

Referring to the video footage taken by a news cameraman embedded with US Marines on the shooting of some Iraqis with their hands tied, the editorial said, "Is this fight against terrorism? Can such atrocities be justified in the name of curbing Islamic fundamentalism? These were the lands where rudiments of human civilisation arose".

Asserting that the UN "cannot remain a mute spectator", the CPM organ said, "Neither can it remain paralysed as it were by the re-election of George Bush".