Kuwait says it has recovered the remains of 236 missing in Iraq

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Iraq and Kuwait discuss efforts to search for the missing

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Baghdad - INA
, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for Multilateral Affairs and Legal Affairs, Qahtan Taha Khalaf, headed the Iraqi delegation participating in the meetings of the Tripartite Committee, session (52) and the Technical Subcommittee session (118) concerned with searching for missing Iraqis and Kuwaitis.
A statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs received by the Iraqi News Agency (INA), stated that "the Undersecretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for Multilateral Affairs and Legal Affairs, Qahtan Taha Khalaf, headed the Iraqi delegation, which includes in its membership representatives from the ministries of defense and health to participate in the work of the meetings of the Tripartite Committee session (52) and the technical subcommittee of the session. (118) concerned with searching for the missing Iraqis and Kuwaitis as a result of the second Gulf War in 1991, held in the capital of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, Amman, for the period 11/29-2021/12/2, headed by the International Committee of the Red Cross, and with the participation of representatives from the State of Kuwait, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Kingdom The United States, the United States of America and the Republic of France, and in the presence of representatives of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) as an observer.
She added, "The meetings dealt with discussing the efforts exerted in the search and investigation of the missing, as Taha expressed the keenness of the Iraqi government and people to exert the utmost levels of cooperation based on brotherhood and in line with Iraq's international obligations in this regard and the requirements of this humanitarian file."
She continued: "It was also during these closed meetings 30 files for missing," adding that he "was found remains in the desert Muthanna (Samawa) during the years 2019 and 2020, and to identify their identities after a matching DNA (DNA) with their families."
She Ministry The Iraqi Foreign Ministry, according to the statement, expressed its deepest condolences and solidarity with their families, asking God Almighty to inspire their families patience and solace, and dwell in their vast gardens. 
And she stressed, that she will spare no effort to continue working with the rest of the concerned Iraqi institutions and the brothers in the State of Kuwait and friendly countries in cooperating in order to reach the lofty goals of ending this humanitarian file.

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Kuwaiti prisoners in Iraq

 

Kuwait

Khaled al-Khalidi

December 06, 2021

 

 

Burial of the remains of Kuwaiti prisoners found in Iraq (Yasser Al-Zayat/AFP)

 

Kuwaiti Fahd Al-Enezi cannot stop crying while telling the story of his uncle Nayef Al-Enezi, who went missing in Kuwait during the Iraqi invasion of the country in 1990. At that time, the boy Nayef was on his way to visit a friend's house, when it later became clear that he was involved in the Kuwaiti popular resistance. against the Iraqi army .
Al-Enezi recalls the distinguished relationship between him and his uncle before his disappearance, noting that he was 8 years old at the time of the invasion, while Nayef was about 17 years old. 
After the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, the Kuwaiti government revealed that it had identified the remains of groups of bodies belonging to the missing Kuwaiti prisoners, who were rejected by the former Iraqi regime led by Saddam Hussein.Acknowledging their existence in the first place, and among the remains of the bodies discovered, the remains belonged to Nayef Al-Anzi, and the family received the rest of the remains, and buried them in Kuwait.
The number of missing prisoners whose remains were discovered by the Kuwaiti government reached 293 out of 605 missing persons, and this is being done in cooperation with successive Iraqi governments, which periodically discover mass graves left by the former regime in different parts of the country.

The issue of prisoners continues to cast a shadow over Kuwaiti society. In 1991, Iraq released the prisoners it had documented in the records of the International Red Cross, but some of those kidnapped during the last days of the war, most of whom were civilian teenagers, were never announced about their whereabouts. The former Iraqi regime recognizes their existence, which made the issue of prisoners a national issue that dominates a large part of the political and social discussions in the country since the nineties of the last century. 

 

 

The families of many of the missing prisoners later discovered their remains, including Hassan Al-Yaqoub, a cousin of a missing Kuwaiti captive. He says that the father and mother of his cousin, the missing captive, were living in the hope that their son would return in light of repeated rumors about the discovery of the presence of Kuwaiti prisoners alive in Iraqi prisons during The American invasion of Iraq in 2003, and these rumors affected them greatly, and they followed them on a daily basis. 
Al-Yacoub adds: “When you have a missing son who was kidnapped from the street, and someone comes to say that he saw him detained somewhere, you will see in this a thread of hope, and you will try to hold on to him, and this is exactly what happened in the case of my cousin, and in the end, the family did not believe the news He died only after the Kuwaiti government announced that the missing prisoner's DNA had been matched with remains found in a mass grave in Iraq. 
Fahd Al-Enezi confirms that the prisoners' file witnessed many manipulations by the Kuwaiti press, and some of them he called "fame seekers" after the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime, as many Kuwaitis were going to Iraq under the pretext that he would search for prisoners, and return with rumors, and some of them were He requests sums of money in exchange for guidance on the alleged location of prisoners.

Those who found the remains of their sons are trying to identify the circumstances of their death (Yasser Al-Zayat/AFP)

According to Al-Enezi, "there is a conviction among all the actors in the file of Kuwaiti prisoners and missing persons of their deaths at the hands of figures and leaders in the former Iraqi regime in 1991, as a kind of revenge after the international coalition forces entered Kuwait and liberated the country from the Iraqi invasion."
The government of Kuwait began the program to claim prisoners and missing persons in 1992, and established the National Committee for Prisoners and Missing Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which at that time tried to organize the search process, and open channels of communication with the former Iraqi regime through Arab and international mediation to find the prisoners and return them to Kuwait, and established the Kuwaiti National Assembly. At that time, a parliamentary committee to search for Kuwaiti prisoners, and the families of the prisoners and the missing organized themselves in an association for the public benefit, called the Society for the Search of Kuwaiti Prisoners and Missing Persons.
But the biggest decision taken by the Kuwaiti government was the establishment of a team to search for prisoners and missing persons in Iraq in 2003, to which a huge budget was allocated, and one goal was set for it, “finding the prisoners, returning them to the country, or returning the rest of their remains.” 

 

The Committee on Prisoners and Missing Persons Affairs at the Kuwaiti Ministry of Foreign Affairs explains, in a statement, the process of identifying Kuwaiti prisoners and missing persons in Iraq, stressing that "groups of remains are brought from Iraq to Kuwait, and the General Department of Criminal Evidence of the Ministry of Interior is carrying out the identification process through genetic analysis of the genetic fingerprint, And identifying the remains of the Kuwaitis among them, and then announcing their names,” stressing that “it is a difficult and huge effort in light of the difficult technical conditions related to the condition of these remains after many years of burials in mass graves in Iraq.” 
Despite the passage of 31 years since Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait, the issue of prisoners is still stuck in the hearts of Kuwaitis, especially the families of the missing, as those who found the remains of their children are trying to identify the circumstances of their death, while others still want to know the fate of their children, and some hope that they can be found alive. , although the Kuwaiti government told the families that it was certain that everyone had been killed, according to intelligence information.