KUWAIT CITY - Kuwait on Thursday announced the discovery of a mass grave for 55 Iraqi soldiers killed during the 1991 war in which a US-led coalition force evicted Saddam Hussein's forces from the Gulf emirate.
Interior ministry spokesman Brigadier Mohammed Al Saber said in a statement cited by the official KUNA agency that the grave was found in the north of the country near the border with Iraq. Saber said that representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross, coalition forces, the Iraqi human rights ministry, Iraqi forensic experts and Kuwaiti interior ministry officials were present at the site.
He said the remains of the soldiers were identified from their uniforms, adding that the bodies also had Iraqi military IDs and death certificates issued by coalition forces. Saber did not elaborate on the original circumstances of their burial, or why the location of the grave site was not recorded. |