Wassit’s exiled citizens from Kuwait, dem – local – parliamentarian representation

WASSIT / IraqiNews.com: The Chairman of the Committee in Defense of Rights of Citizens of south Iraq’s Wassit Province, exiled from Kuwait after 1990, called as “Bidoun (stateless),” have demanded their local and parliamentarian representation in the Province. “Hundreds of (Wassit citizens), exiled from the State of Kuwait after its occupation by Iraq in 1990, who had inhabited in Wassit Province, exceeding 5,000 people, are demanding their representation in the Province’s local Council and the Iraqi Parliament,” Hussein Hashoush al-Nueimy told IraqiNews.com news agency. “All those exiled people are of Iraqi origin and it is the duty of both Wassit’s local administration and the Iraqi government to secure their rights, privileges and equalization with Wassit’s citizens, guaranteeing their human, social and political rights,” Nueimy said. Noteworthy is that thousands of Iraqis, who resided in Kuwait before its occupation by the Iraqi Army in 1990, are addressed in Kuwait as “Bidoun (stateless),” due to their failure to get Kuwaiti nationality. In 1990, the armies of 33 states, led by the United States of America, were mobilized to force Iraq out of Kuwait, following the UN Security Council’s Resolution, imposing economic sanctions on Iraq, that continued till after Iraq’s occupation by the U.S. and Britain in 2003. Kut, the center of Wassit Province, is 180 km to the southeast of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad. SKH (RT)/SR 477