What happened in 1990's ?
The days from 13 Aug to 11 October in 1990's are historic and unforgotten
In history of world and The most heroic for India.
It was on 2 nd August 1990,on which invasion of kuwait started and within two days of intense combat, most of the Kuwait Armed Forces were either overrun by the Iraqi Republican Guard or fell back to neighboring Saudi Arabia and Bahrain. The Emirate of Kuwait was annexed, and Saddam Hussein announced a few days later that it was the 19th province of Iraq.
In history of world and The most heroic for India.
It was on 2 nd August 1990,on which invasion of kuwait started and within two days of intense combat, most of the Kuwait Armed Forces were either overrun by the Iraqi Republican Guard or fell back to neighboring Saudi Arabia and Bahrain. The Emirate of Kuwait was annexed, and Saddam Hussein announced a few days later that it was the 19th province of Iraq.
Saddam Hussein |
The Invasion of Kuwait, also known as the Iraq–Kuwait War, was a major conflict between Ba'athist Iraq and the Emirate of Kuwait, which resulted in the seven-month-long Iraqi occupation of Kuwait, and subsequently led to direct military intervention by US-led forces Supported by 34 countries in the Gulf War and the setting alight by Iraq of 600 Kuwaiti oil wells.
In 1990 Iraq accused Kuwait of stealing Iraqi petroleum through slant drilling, although some Iraqi sources indicated Saddam Hussein's decision to attack Kuwait was made a few months before the actual invasion.
Some feel there were several reasons for the Iraqi move,
1)including Iraq's inability to pay more than US$80 billion that had been borrowed to finance the Iran–Iraq war, and
2) Kuwaiti overproduction of petroleum which kept revenues down for Iraq.
## At that time several Indians were trapped in that invasion. At the darken night a bright morning arises for indian refugees that The 1990 airlift of Indians from Kuwait was carried out from 13 August to 11 October 1990. Initial efforts were made by the government of India to evacuate nationals by military aircraft. However, due to difficulties in air-space clearances the switch was made to civilian aircraft. Groundwork for the evacuation was laid during a visit by Minister of External Affairs I. K. Gujral soon after the invasion. As a result of this visit, Iraq agreed to permit the Indian evacuation efforts. Air India's efforts were coordinated by MP Mascarenhas based in Kuwait.
after the Invasion of Kuwait. Air India holds the Guinness Book of World Records for the most people evacuated by a civil airline as a result of this effort. The operation was carried out during the Persian Gulf War in 1990 to evacuate Indian expatriates from Kuwait and Iraq. It was the largest civilian evacuation in history.The evacuation was completed before the start of Operation Desert Shield.
- A total of 1,70,000 people were evacuated to
- Mumbai – a distance of 4,117 km, -by operating 488 flights in
- association with Indian Airlines,
- lasting 59 days.
This is the overview of the 1990s airlift .
To feel the thrill , proud to be an Indian and witnessing it
watch AIRLIFT movie
22 JAN 2015
Staring akshay kumar
directed By raja krishna menon
"HINDUSTAN KI HINDUSTANIYO KE LIYE SAB SE KAMIYAB KOSHISH...."
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