Iraqis Hanged 10 Women, Refugees Say
Iraqi occupation troops in Kuwait have tortured and hanged 10 Kuwaiti women since Feb. 8 for aiding the resistance forces, witnesses said today.
The witnesses told relatives in Egypt after fleeing to Jordan that the naked corpses of the women were left hanging in public view in the Adaliya, Rumaithiya and Sulaibikat graveyard districts of the occupied emirate.
They said the corpses bore signs of torture.
Kuwait’s exiled news agency KUNA carried a report Feb. 12 quoting Kuwaiti officials in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, as saying a number of Kuwaiti women were executed by Iraqi occupation forces “over the past few days” but gave no further details.
Rumaithiya and Sulaibikat are suburbs of Kuwait city populated mostly by Shiite Muslim Kuwaitis. Adaliya is a residential area for wealthy Kuwaitis.
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