Liberation Day (February 26) celebrates
the liberation of Kuwait by a multi-national force
from seven months of traumatic Iraqi occupation
on February 26, 1991. Each year the day is marked
with public gatherings and get-togethers.
However, the day is also tinged with sadness as
Kuwait remembers and honours the martyrs who lost
their lives fighting Iraqi oppression and the 605
Prisoners of War out of which, 236 remains have
been found and the fate of 378 POWs is still not
known.( As Per July 2008)
