The special team tasked with searching for Kuwaiti POWs announced on Thursday that DNA tests on human remains uncovered from mass graves in Iraq showed that they belonged to 10 of the Kuwaiti prisoners and an Egyptian national who had been snatched by the Iraqi regime during its 1990-1991 occupation of the State of Kuwait. This figure brings to 33 the number of Kuwaiti POWs who have been confirmed as victims of the Iraqi regime. Kuwait has relentlessly campaigned at various levels to determine the destiny of more than 605 nationals, taken prisoners by the forces of the ousted regime of Saddam Hussein during the occupation of the country. Meanwhile, HH the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah on Friday sent condolences to the families of the Kuwaiti martyrs whose remains were found in Iraqi mass graves.
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