For over 7 decades Kuwait's government has been misleading the international community on the subject of stateless people (bedoon), while often describing them as illegal residents, the following timeline of events will refute such false claim. #Ibelong #humanrights @hrw @UN
Quoting a statement from the oil workers union in a local tabloid regarding stateless people (Bedoon) in Kuwait in 1967: "the majority of workers in the oil company (koc) are Kuwaitis without citizenship," #Ibelong #humanrights @hrw @UN
Quoting a statement from late minister of education and PM Khaled Masoud in a parliament session March 1975 in reference to Kuwait's stateless people: /1
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#Ibelong #humanrights @hrw @UN
"The government has introduced a revision in nationality law allowing those who completed their primary education to be naturalized, yet deputy minister of interior is preventing that from happening"
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#Ibelong #humanrights @hrw @UN
To say that granting them citizenship will lead them to retire isn't an excuse" /2
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#Ibelong #humanrights @hrw @UN
Quoting Kuwait's government's statements itself in a parliament session that took place in Nov 1974: "We can't accept the resignation of people we trained (referencing stateless policemen, guards and army men) and spent money on" #Ibelong #humanrights @hrw @UN
Quoting the speech of late PM Jasim Al Qatan in April 1975: "It is said that there are 62 thousand applications of stateless people for nationality, /1 #Ibelong #humanrights @hrw @UN
"other statements reveal there are 80 thousand applications submitted by policemen, army privates, and guards ((all stateless))" #Ibelong #humanrights @hrw @UN
Quoting statements of an American diplomat during a meeting with top official in the ministry of planning in Kuwait from a leaked cable in 1979:" /1 #Ibelong #humanrights @hrw @UN
"These troops are generally not made Kuwaitis until they have served considerable amount of time. Kuwait has run out of bedouins" #Ibelong #humanrights @hrw @UN
On 25th Dec 1982, in a leaked classified document, the cabinet of ministers in Kuwait issued a resolution titled (6/11) obligating all the state's institutions to cease the usage of the terms "stateless people" /1 #Ibelong #humanrights @hrw @UN
On 12th Aug 1984 the government passed a resolution in the parliament to commence a development plan titled 1984/1985-1986/1990, a plan that was designed to achieve demographic balance by removing stateless people from censuses, #Ibelong #humanrights @hrw @UN /1
Past and present, while previously being considered Kuwaitis without citizenship. #Ibelong #humanrights @hrw @UN
On July 1st 1986 several officials in Kuwait's government intimated that the resolution of the issue of statelessness in Kuwait will be part of the plan 1984/1985-1986/1990 /1 #Ibelong #humanrights @hrw @UN
Knowing this plan served as the catalyst for the apartheid policy stateless people in Kuwait were to suffer for years to come, arguably to this day. #Ibelong #humanrights @hrw @UN
In a reply to an inquiry made by former PM and current speaker of the parliament, Ahmed Al Sadoun in 2003, regarding the inclusion of stateless people in Kuwait's as Kuwaitis censuses in the past, #Ibelong #humanrights @hrw @UN /1
Former minister of planning in Kuwait, Sheikh Ahmed Al Sabah added the following: "Stateless people were removed from censuses starting from the commencement of the plan 1984/1985-1986/1990" #Ibelong #humanrights @hrw @UN
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