LETTER : Remember those still held in Iraq
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Your support makes all the difference.From Mr Faisal Al-Sabah Sir: On Tuesday, 17 January, we remember once more with gratitude the start of the international military campaign to liberate Kuwait. Britain played a crucial role in this liberation for which we are eternally grateful. We thank the British people for our freedom.
And while we are thanking our international friends, we remember those who are still not free: the 625 men, women and children taken from Kuwait and still imprisoned by Saddam Hussein and the 17 million Iraqis who are captives of his cruel regime.
Saddam is holding his own people hostage - using their suffering as an emotive foreign policy tool to try to persuade the international community to lift sanctions against his regime when, with one stroke of his pen, he could put into motion UN Resolutions 706 and 712, which allow him to export oil in order to purchase food and medicine.
Yours sincerely, FAISAL AL-SABAH Director Kuwait Information Centre London, W1
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