Celebrate Kuwait - February 25 & 26

With all the events together with celebrations going on, does anyone genuinely know what the dates signify or why they celebrate? To most people living inward State of Kuwait it's a calendar week to go together with instruct out Kuwait, non remain together with celebrate every bit the pregnant behind the dates has been lost over time.

The significance of Feb 25:

According to the Al-Amiri Al-Diwan the vacation was inward remembrance of Sheikh Abdullah Al-Salem Al-Sabah's ascent to the throne. Sheikh Abdullah was instrumental inward State of Kuwait gaining independence from British command together with the development of modern 24-hour interval Kuwait.

Feb 26: State of Kuwait invasion ended

 According to Wikipedia together with those that survived the invasion:

On two August 1990, Iraqi forces invaded together with annexed  Kuwait. After a serial of failed diplomatic negotiations, the United States of America of America led a coalition to take away the Iraqi forces from Kuwait, inward what became known every bit the Gulf War. On 26 Feb 1991, the coalition succeeded inward driving out the Iraqi forces. As they retreated, Iraqi forces carried out a scorched earth policy yesteryear setting crude wells on fire. During the Iraqi occupation, close 1,000 Kuwaiti civilians were killed together with to a greater extent than than 300,000 residents fled the country.

This was belike the terminal fourth dimension Kuwaiti citizens were united every bit one.

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