Neither could they, as they did not have valid travel papers as the employers used to hold on to their employee passports once they landed in Kuwait, and those Kuwaiti employers were either dead or had fled by then. The evacuation was no easy task, as most Indians were not ready to leave everything they had worked for so hard, for so many years. Some of the Indian businessmen got together to form a group that would oversee the evacuation of the huge Indian contingent from war-torn Kuwait.

Kuwait was home to almost 1,70,000 Indians, all of who had suddenly lost all their money, were homeless and scared for their lives. The city was looted and the general population subjugated and made to suffer great tragedies at the hands of the Iraqi army. The Kuwaiti royal family managed to escape to Saudi Arabia, leaving the state rudderless. The Iraqi army took over the city within a few hours. On August 2, 1990, Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait. But, both the OPEC and Kuwait refused, leaving Iraq furious. Iraq wanted the OPEC (Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries) and specifically Kuwait, to reduce oil production to create a scarcity of oil leading to increasing oil prices, thereby helping Iraq raise more money. Facts of History: August 2, 1990, Saddam Hussein invades Kuwait Saddam Hussein’s Iraq in 1990 was in debt to the tune of US $80 billion because of the long-drawn Iran conflict that it had undertaken.

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