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Malappuram, Nov 6: Shocked and grieved by the death sentence handed down to former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, people living on the Saddam beach near Malappuram protested the Iraqi tribunal's verdict to hang their 'hero'.
About 50 men of the tiny fishing hamlet close to Parappanangadi town in the district took out a march late Sunday, denouncing the verdict slapped on the deposed leader.
"The protest was spontaneous. The news was really shocking and we don’t have to wait for a call from somebody to register our anger," a villager said.
The area came to be known after the Iraqi leader ever since a signboard appeared on a shanty bus shelter bearing the name 'Saddam beach' during the Iraq-Kuwait war in 1992.