KUWAIT: Inspections of remains discovered in Iraq are "positive" and we will inform missing families

POSTED ON 2019-07-25 BY SOTALIRAQ

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[size=45]"UN Compensation" gives the oil company $ 270 million for the damages of the invasion
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Kuwait: Mirza Al-Khuwaildi
A joint committee with Iraq and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is examining the remains of a number of people believed to be missing Kuwaitis detained by Saddam Hussein's regime during his invasion of the country, a Kuwaiti official said yesterday. 
The Kuwaiti official confirmed that the initial tests proved positive results for a number of samples. 
Two sites containing human remains were found in Muthanna, the southern Iraqi province of Samawah, believed to be missing civilians and prisoners of war, on June 20. 
The Kuwaiti Foreign Ministry said yesterday that it will inform "the relatives of the prisoners after the completion of the genetic examination and the conformity of the entire remains with all the information, data and procedures taken to determine the fate of their families as a human and legal right for them."
Kuwait's assistant foreign minister for international affairs, Nasser al-Hain, said Wednesday that efforts in the past period have led to information on the sites buried in Iraq. 
Al-Hain said in a press statement that the information was submitted to the Technical Subcommittee of the Tripartite Commission, which decided to examine the sites by the Iraqi technical team under the supervision of the International Committee of the Red Cross, where a number of remains were found and then take genetic testing in Iraq. 
A Kuwaiti technical team from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the General Directorate of Criminal Evidence of the Ministry of Interior has been invited to visit the Department of Forensic Medicine in Iraq to learn about the technical procedures taken by the specialists in the Department and to transfer a number of samples from these remains to Kuwait for genetic testing and comparison with a database In the General Directorate of Criminal Evidence.
He pointed out that the initial tests proved positive results for a number of samples brought by the technical team, and accordingly Kuwait requested the delivery of all the remains to complete the process of genetic examination of all remains and identify the identities of the remains in order to announce who is recognized. 
He stressed that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs will inform the families of the prisoners after the completion of the genetic examination and the matching of the entire remains to all the information, data and actions taken in order to determine the fate of their families as a human and legal right for them. 
He expressed the hope that this humanitarian tragedy would end, stressing Kuwait's continued efforts to determine the fate of all Kuwaiti prisoners and nationals of other countries.
The tripartite committee on resolving the issue of prisoners and Kuwait detainees of the International Red Cross said in a joint statement that the discovery gives hope to the families of missing persons more than 28 years after the end of the war to liberate Kuwait from the Iraqi invasion. She added that these remains were extracted "fully and deposited with the Department of Forensic Medicine in Baghdad for the purpose of extracting the genetic map (DNA) for later matching with the DNA of the families of the missing in that period». 
The committee, which includes representatives from Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, the United States, the United Kingdom and France on the one hand, and Iraq, on the other hand, said forensic analysis would reveal "the approximate number of ransom extracted and provide information about their nationality."
She pointed out that this recent discovery of the remains of a number of people buried in two sites believed to have been lost in the conflict "and gives hope to give some answers" on this issue. 
The discovery of these remains was the result of the hard work of the Kuwaiti, Iraqi and ICRC authorities in both Kuwait and Iraq and the intensive efforts made in the field of information gathering and analysis, through the acquisition of new witnesses, Which will facilitate the work of field teams on the ground. 
The last time the remains of Kuwaiti citizens were found was in 2005, while the last collection of remains for Iraqis was found in 2011 so far, and the Tripartite Commission is still working to reveal the whereabouts of people who are still missing in both countries Since the liberation of Kuwait (1990-1991).
The United Nations announced yesterday that Kuwait had received an additional $ 270 million in damages for damages caused by the Iraqi invasion in 1990. This amount was allocated to one of KOC's claims for production losses and damage to oil assets, The ICRC said in a statement. The UN Compensation Commission was formed in 1991, the same year that the US-led coalition brought Iraqi forces out of Kuwait. 
The commission was ordered to pay $ 52.4 billion (46.8 billion euros) to individuals, companies, government agencies and other organizations that suffered losses due to Iraq's occupation of Kuwait. 
The compensation money comes from a tax imposed on the sale of Iraqi oil and its products. 
The committee was forced to halt payments between 2014 and 2018 because of the security crisis in Iraq and the control of a "push" on large parts of the country.
The Commission said that in this final payment would have paid a total of 48.7 billion dollars, leaving 3.7 billion dollars of compensation.


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