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...hands in a new regime, the guerrillas would be more likely to wage a bloody civil war for supremacy -- and not only against each other. They might join in slaughtering the Sunni Muslims in central Iraq from whom Saddam has drawn the elite of his regime. "It would make Kuwaiti brutality against the Palestinians ((who supported Iraqi occupation or were suspected of doing so)) seem mild," says a senior British diplomat...
Schools and hospitals are functioning, although teachers and nurses are in short supply. The Iraqis stripped hospitals of medical equipment, but most of it has been replaced. Kuwaiti allegations that Iraqi soldiers killed premature babies by throwing them out of incubators may have been exaggerated, but doctors insist that an incubator shortage did cause the death of some newborns...
Thousands of Kuwaiti children suffered severe stress. A United Nations Children's Fund survey of those ages 5 to 13 in one neighborhood found that 62% showed signs of traumatic shock. Teenagers were disoriented by the violence. Since the war, knife fights have erupted in schools, drug use is mounting, burglaries and vandalism have increased. Near a fashionable seaside shopping mall, teenage boys on motorcycles harass girls, and others race in flashy sports cars. Some of these youths were among the 400,000 Kuwaitis who left the country during the occupation and lived a life of ease in European...
...vigilante justice meted out by Kuwaiti resistance fighters against Palestinians suspected of collaboration with the enemy ended after a few weeks, leaving an estimated 100 Palestinians dead. But of the 300,000 Palestinian workers in the country before the Iraqi invasion, only about 30,000 remain. Most fled the government-encourag ed atmosphere of fear and intimidation...
...more responsive to quiet American diplomacy pushing for democracy. Even opponents of the regime believe the Emir is sincere in proposing an election for a new parliament next October, though the most vocal advocates still cannot agree on whether to open the voting franchise, now limited to 65,000 Kuwaiti men, to women and others...