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BAGHDAD, July 10 (AFP)-A popular committee established by Baghdad to investigate the fate of Iraqis missing from the 1991 Gulf War over Kuwait on Monday published the names of 1,155 nationals it claims are still missing in the emirate. "These people are not on the [Iraqi] Red Crescent or Red Cross lists and it is our job to try and find them," committee head Hisham Hassan Tawfik told a press conference. "They were in Kuwait at the end of the aggression [the Gulf War] and we have had no news of them since," said Tawfiq, who held the Kuwaiti authorities responsible for their fate. Kuwait's Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Suleiman Majed al-Shahin said on March 14 that the emirate is holding 49 Iraqis in its jails, all of them serving sentences for common crimes. Iraq previously claimed that 1,037 of its nationals had disappeared or are being detained in Kuwait, but denies that it is holding any Kuwaitis. Kuwait says more than 600 of its nationals and people of other nationalities disappeared during the Iraqi occupation of the emirate between August 1990 and February 1991. Iraq has admitted taking some Kuwaiti prisoners when it was driven out of the emirate at the end of the Gulf war in February 1991, but maintains it lost track of them during a Shiite Muslim uprising in the south of the country which broke out immediately afterwards. |
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