Communist Party of India

New Delhi, 12th September 2001

PRESS RELEASE
CPI STATEMENT ON TERRORIST ATTACK IN USA.

The Central Secretariat of the Communist Party of India has issued the following statement:-

The Communist Party of India expresses its shock and horror at the coordinated and massive terrorist attack on sensitive civilian and official sites in the U.S., which has led to the death of several thousand lives, caused vast destruction, and spread panic and fear among people, not only in the U.S.A., but elsewhere in the world. We express our heartfelt condolence to the people of the United States in this hour of grief.

We have always opposed terrorism, and along with it state terrorism, as weapons of pursuing political aims. They only let loose a chain of retaliatory attacks in an ever rising crescendo of violence. Our country as well as several countries of the third world have been victims of terrorism and state terrorism sponsored or connived at by the super-power. The present terrorist attack has also shown the tragic truth that accumulation
of latest and most sophisticated weapons of offence and defence, and unleashing an arms race on land, in seas, and even in outer space, do not guarantee internal security. This is a lesson that in the first place, the U.S. leaders should note at this grim hour.

(S.S. Bhusari)
Office Secretary.