Kuwait's Plan to Pawn Off its 'Stateless'

Email What to do with the Bidun, the one hundred thousand plus people that the Kuwait government claims are "illegal residents" and considers stateless? Now, it seems, Kuwait's rulers have come up with a solution to the "problem" of the Bidun, whose lack of citizenship rights despite historic ties to the country has frequently led to international criticism. Put simply, the idea seems to be to pay other countries to accord them rights that Kuwait itself will not. What to do with the Bidun, the one hundred thousand plus people that the Kuwait government claims are "illegal residents"…

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