Bedoun in Kuwait .. Old controversy renewed

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After the length of the province of the Central Organ for the treatment of the situation of illegal residents (Bedoons) did not find Ahmed in front of him began to review to extract a security card, he is the head of a family and God bless him a new child wants to extract a birth certificate, and without the security card will paralyze his life, Proof of birth to his son, withdrawal of salary from the bank, driving or even a doctor.

He wants to continue to boycott the central apparatus for the many obstacles that he puts in front of them in the conduct of their daily lives, in contrast to what was created for them to facilitate their lives.

Prior to receiving the security card, Ahmed and others can not find a confirmation of the authenticity of the information that will appear on the card, but before he sees it, and his shock is complete when he receives it when he finds the sentence "The father has a valid proof of Iraqi nationality."

"How does my father have a valid presumption on my Iraqi nationality and he has a document proving in the 1970 census that he is a Kuwaiti?" Ahmed says.

Ahmed tries to change this reality something, find all the doors closed in front of his protests, and even claims a copy of documents that indicate that his father is an Iraqi or even just to see them refused, return to his home and mocking the words of booing to deny his right to do so and consequently the rights of his children.

Ahmed recalls his university period and says he was superior to it. He won a distinction with honors and stayed online looking for scholarships until he got one from the University of West Virginia to teach Arabic for a master's degree. The passport to be paid under Article 17 is only valid for nine months, while the US Embassy has stipulated that it be valid for two years. The passport must be seized upon review of the Directorate of Nationality, the scholarship is lost and the dreams are lost. .

The security cards of Bedoun have many definitions of nationality in their holders. They are sometimes "undefined", "illegally resident", "undetermined nationality" and "nationalities".

The Bidun is the popular description of a group of Badia people who have been described by Kuwait's official authorities after the emergence of oil in Kuwait. They were Kuwaitis, Kuwaitis from the Badia, non-Kuwaitis, and non-Kuwaitis. "To" illegal residents ", according to Bidoon sources.

Bedoons say they are people born in Kuwait who never left or know others as their homeland, but Kuwaiti authorities consider them to be illegal or undocumented.

The head of the Central Agency for the Treatment of Illegal Residents (Bidoun) Saleh Al-Fadala had a recent statement during a press conference held in a Kuwaiti newspaper that 90% of the Bedoons had cards bearing the nationality of their countries of origin. Bidoon media, and witnessed a wide solidarity of the Kuwaiti themselves, has appeared on social networking sites, especially Twitter.

The security cards of Bedoun have known their holders with many definitions in the nationality (Al Jazeera Net)

Al-Fadala added that since 1986 until the establishment of the central apparatus in 2010, the person of the Bidoon had a card that does not specify his nationality. Today, he has one, according to his nationality: "Saudi", "Iraqi", "Syrian" or "Jordanian".

Al-Fadala's statement led the Mujahideen to launch a multi-national Hashom, the most prominent of which was an insulting sign of corruption. The majority of the converts went to question the validity of his words and asked him to reveal the documents that prove the original nationality of the Bidoon.

Other scoundrels challenged the virtue of referring them to the prosecution or to the embassies of the countries to which they say they belong, wondering why a government apparatus is fraudulently forgiven and illegally resident eight years after the operation began.

While a large percentage of those who are fond of the so-called "Bidun" and the cause of the Kuwaiti people sympathized with the issue, the label expressed the resentment of others, pointing to the virtue and generosity of the public service in Kuwait in more than one location.

But some of the Bedoon recruits returned to question, if the truth of the word of virtue how one family of a father and mother to carry one of their Bahraini nationality, while holding the last Iraqi nationality?

"The governments of these countries do not recognize us at all," Abdul Hakim al-Fadhli, a human rights activist and leader of the civil and peaceful movement of Kuwaiti Bedouins, told Al-Jazeera Net about his dissatisfaction and even displeasure with statements of vandalism.

Al-Fadhli wondered why the central apparatus does not turn any of the Bidun into the judiciary, immigration, nationality or passports, if it actually has documents proving the subordination of 90% of them.

Al-Fadhli said that the statements made by the head of the Central Agency to deal with the situation of illegal residents are directed to satisfy a specific Kuwaiti group and are not directed to the Bidoon or the countries that spoke about it.

Al-Fadhli explains that Al-Fadhli says that he recognizes only 93,000 Bedoons. He then goes on to say that only 34,000 people are entitled to citizenship in general, while their numbers are up to 200 thousand - according to Al-Zafli in the absence of official census. Al-Fadhilah, saying that he has evidence of 67,000 forged nationalities, and once again says he has five million documents proving that Bidoons are forged.

Fadhli pointed out that he is currently working with a group of human rights activists to address the embassies of Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Syria and Jordan through official correspondence to demand that they prove that they follow them and respond to the dishonesty.

He also asserted that they are in the process of filing legal cases against the central authority and a person of good will to take legal responsibility for the validity of his words.

For its part, Kuwaiti human rights activist Hadeel Boukreis called on the Central Agency to show the original nationalities and paper proofs that Al-Fadala talked about.

Bougreis said that the central body wants to expedite the end of this issue within a short period of time, before the end of the time set by the United Nations to end the issue of statelessness - not only in the Arab world - but in the world as a whole.

Al-Fadhli is currently working with other jurists to address some embassies and demand that they prove the dependence of Bidoon (Al-Jazeera Net)

On the other hand, a member of the Group of Eight - the opposition to the naturalization of the Bidoon - Osama al-Khashram told Al Jazeera Net that the nationalities set by the Central Authority on the cards are correct, stressing the group's consistent position against tampering with the Kuwaiti demographic composition.

The Group of Eight, as it defines itself, is a group of 80 active Kuwaiti figures who say their goal is to confront what they call the falsification of Kuwaiti nationality, along with all other corruption issues, and to keep Kuwait to its people.

Khashram renewed the group's position on the case, saying that they were against what he called fraud and "against anyone who falsely claims that he belongs to Kuwait and does not belong to it. He entered the country in the 1960s legally by establishing a job, hiding his identity and claiming that without it."

Khashram added that many members of Arab communities worked in Kuwait during the 1930s and 1940s with all sincerity and honesty and did not hide their documents. Some of them applied for citizenship and obtained it according to the law.

From his point of view, Kuwait provides many tangible services and privileges to its nationalities. These characteristics are not available in many neighboring countries. Many of these citizens want Kuwaiti nationality. During this period, they claim to belong to Kuwait.

The controversy comes a few days after the announcement of 11 deputies in the Kuwaiti National Assembly support for the proposal submitted by MP Nasser al-Dosari and the abolition of the Central Organ, after a young Bidoon accused of trying to assassinate al-Fadala, after tweeting the young man in Twitter was said to involve a threat to scandals, To arrest the young man by the Ministry of the Interior, before being discharged and released by a decision of the Attorney General, and then write off the case, which sparked a wave of criticism of the scandal.