A first person account of the 1990 Iraqi invasion. Now with English subtitles. [YouTube]
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2:48AM - Entertaining Kuwait since 20032:48AM - Entertaining Kuwait since 2003A first person account of the 1990 Iraqi invasion. Now with English subtitles. [YouTube]
18 replies on “My Story with War 1990”
What a coincidence, my parents where in Kuwait during the invasion too and they were just retelling their story to me last night over dinner. It’s interesting to see it in a different person’s perspective.
Beautiful!
My abiding memory is the noise traffic made after the tanks had chewed up the Tarmac, and the pointless streams of tracer fire at night.
Amazing! Only there was not one mention of the U.S. Forces that did the dirty work to liberate this country.
I really do not know that Kuwait had experienced difficult times. What I know when the war happening (i was child), people in my country praising Saddam hussein.
and 2 days back one of my friend telling me the story he experienced with the war. the same thing with the video above.
There are always 2 stories on either side of the war. Little do many people know that the Iraqi invasion was given the go-ahead signal by then US ambassador to Iraq April Glaspie.
And what about the slaughter of the 150,000 retreating/surrendering Iraqi troops on the road to Basra, more commonly known as the Highway of Death. They were killed with Fuel air bomb munitions despite the ‘Coalition’ knowing that they were trying to surrender. All this constitute a serious War crime and major violations of the Geneva convention.
April Glaspie did not give the green light, The Iraqi’s misunderstood what she said.
That’s what SHE and the US administration said. It would be absurd to openly approve of an invasion for a US diplomat. Her transcripts are always being recorded. She is responsible for giving an indirect approval for the invasion.
It was just a bait.
that “retreating army” had surppased their stay in Kuwait. They were given plenty of time to leave and reminder leaflets to get out. They did not leave and were still in Kuwaiti territory so that classified them as hostile units. Plus, they were still armed and operating thier military vehicles so they were fair game in the rules of engagment.
They could’ve surrendered like their other commrades and this could have been avoided.
There was no ‘time’ and their retreat was in compliance with the UN resolution decreed at that time (that Iraqi forces must withdraw). The attack violated article 3 of the Geneva convention which outlaws the killing of soldiers who “are out of combat.”
Surrender wasn’t an option for them.
It’s a lot more interesting in English, the grammar and word choice is just remarkable.
I don’t think the Kuwaiti language is suitable for narrations of moments like these.
Great piece of film!
Maybe somebody could start the search for the family and the baby in the film (who’s probably 20 or 21 yrs. old now).
They interviewed the lady narrating the film recently on one of Kuwaits TV channels. I saw it on YouTube a while back.
This is it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2fHf95cdG4&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL
No need to start searching. Here I am, 21 yrs old.
This video is so sad….but then in the end they all were free…..even i think that someone should really find this family and the small baby and the kids in the video!!!!
Hey Mark where did u find this video????
The lady who filmed this video is Tahani Al Ayoub, she’s a photographer and currently gives photography lessons.
Tahani and her daughter (in the movie) are friends of mine. She approached me back in 2008 to get this video subtitled and her daughter did the editing.
Going through it now, I probably would’ve used different vocabulary, but like Talal said, the Kuwaiti language isn’t suitable for narration for moments like these.
I’m glad this video is getting more views. I wish there were more that reflect on the situation during the war.
What a memory! I lived it all and was 10 years old. For those who were saying that the coalition forces did not give iraqies time to retreat, i would say check the history books. Coalition gave Saddam a deadline to move out from Kuwait and it was January 17th 1991. At the midnight, Air strikes started for more than a month. Coalition troops entered Kuwait on February 24th and freed it on 26th. This is plenty of time for Iraqi troops to move out.
I do not think it is a crime in bombarding troops that were killing, kidnapping, raping, stealing and terrifying civilians. Iraqi army did all that and they certainly deserve what was happened to them. iraqi Army back then did not treat anyone from Kuwait as prisoners of war and did not give a damn about Geneva convention! what goes around comes around.