Kuwait Asks U.N. to Aid POWs’ Return
Kuwait’s crown prince Sunday called on the United Nations to force Iraq to release hundreds of missing Kuwaitis believed to be still imprisoned there.
“I appeal to the United Nations . . . to multiply its endeavors to take all possible means to force the Iraqi regime to release all prisoners of war and hostages detained in Iraq,” Sheik Saad al Abdullah al Sabah told an Islamic symposium on the issue.
Kuwaiti officials say that more than 2,000 people seized by Iraqi occupation forces are still unaccounted for.
The International Committee of the Red Cross says some may have died but hundreds of others could still be detained.
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