5/6/2010 Mass grave of Iraqi soldiers found N. Kuwait - MoI - Military and Security
KUWAIT, The Kuwaiti Ministry of Interior announced on Thursday that a team of its criminal investigations department found a mass grave containing 55 bodies of Iraqi soldiers in north Kuwait.
The Ministry's Acting Undersecretary Lt. Gen. Ghazi Abdulrahman Al-Omar supervised the uncovering of the mass grave in the presence of representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Multi-National Force in Iraq, as well as Iraq's Ministry of Human Rights and Department of Forensic Medicine.
Director of the Kuwaiti Ministry of Interior's Security Media Department and Spokesman of the ministry Brig. Muhammad Hashem Al-Sabr made the announcement in statements to KUNA here.
"Acting on information received by Kuwait's National Committee for Missing and POW's Affairs, the Ministry's criminal investigations department formed a taskforce," he said.
"The taskforce, led by the department's Director General Maj. Gen. Fahad Al-Dousary and director of the Forensic Medicine Department, has started searching the suspected site since Tuesday, May 4 before managing to discover the mass grave today," Brig Al-Sabr affirmed.
The site includes bodies of 55 Iraqi soldiers who had been killed during Kuwait Libration war, also known as Operation Desert Storm (August 2, 1990 - February 28, 1991), he pointed out.
"It was easy to identify the bodies from their uniform and the attached Iraqi military IDs as well as the burial permits issued by the then allied forces," he noted.
The Kuwaiti side will start the proceedings of handing over the bodies to the Iraqi side in collaboration with the ICRC and by the Kuwaiti National Committee for Missing and POW's Affairs, Brig Al-Sabr added.
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"He added that "Iraq is required under the provisions of Chapter VII of the return of all property and documents and a goodwill gesture to the Kuwaiti confirm that we are interested and serious about this subject"
