Saddam Hussein was executed by hanging early Saturday. He was sentenced to death November 5 for the 1982 reprisal slayings of 148 Shiite Muslims from a town where assassins allegedly tried to kill the former Iraqi leader.
"Instead of so much needed national reconciliation and concord, the Iraqi people are facing a new wave of fratricide and numerous casualties," Mikhail Kamynin said in a statement.
The Russian diplomat said this fact should be recognized "by all those who have sent troops to Iraq and whose 'coalition liberation mission' resulted in an execution of the former notorious dictator."
Kamynin said that these [coalition] forces are responsible for the current crisis and bloodshed in Iraq.
"A hasty and cruel execution, which its external supporters were not ashamed to broadcast to the whole world, will certainly widen the split in the Iraqi society," he said.
