Kuwait's martyrs laid to final resting place | kuwaittimes

Families carry of five prisoners of war who remains were found in a mass grave in Iraq, at a cemetary in Kuwait City on November 23, 2020. Kuwait identified remains belonging to seven Kuwaiti prisoners of war (POWs) or missing persons after DNA tests were conducted by the General Administration of Criminal Evidence. These prisoners had been arrested during the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990. He added the foreign ministry informed the martyrs’ families immediately after the completion of the genetic examination process of all information related to the results of identification and related procedures.

Kuwait's martyrs laid to final resting place

By Kuwait Times

November 23, 2020 | 08:04 p.m EDT

**KUWAIT: Coffins of Kuwaiti martyrs are carried to their final resting place at the Sulaibkhat cemetery yesterday. - Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat and Fouad Al-Shaikh**

KUWAIT: Seven Kuwaiti martyrs were laid to rest in Kuwait yesterday, some thirty years after they were taken as prisoners of war by invading Iraqi soldiers during the 1990 invasion of Kuwait. The martyrs were laid to their final resting place in the Sulaibkhat cemetery, in a military funeral service where Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense Sheikh Ahmad Mansour Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah and Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Interior and Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs Anas Al-Saleh as well as other military and security top brass were in attendance.

Kuwait had announced Sunday identifying the remains of seven martyrs, out of a group of remains suspected to belong to Kuwaiti POWs which Kuwait had received from Iraq in September. The National Committee of POWs and Missing Affairs had confirmed that the remains belong to Meshaal Ibrahim Al-Khulaifi, Barjas Bilal Al-Khaldi, Salem Rashed Al-Duwseri, Waleed Ibrahim Al-Jeeran, Munther Numaan Al-Saif, Hussein Ali Al-Qabandi and Khaled Faraaj Al-Duwseri.

**Minister of Defense Sheikh Ahmad Mansour Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah and Minister of Interior Anas Al-Saleh attend the funeral.**

**People carry the coffin of Kuwaiti martyr Waleed Ibrahim Al-Jeeran.**

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