Three decades on, Iraq and Kuwait haunted by Saddam’s invasion

Thirty years have passed since Iraqi tyrant Saddam Hussein invaded neighbouring Kuwait, but despite hints of a diplomatic rapprochement, people in both countries say the wounds have yet to heal. On August 2, 1990, Saddam sent his military, already exhausted by an eight-year conflict with Iran, into Kuwait to seize what he dubbed “Iraq’s 19th province.” The two-day operation turned into a seven-month occupation and, for many Iraqis, opened the…