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Nayirah testimony

The Nayirah testimony was false testimony given before the United States Congressional Human Rights Caucus on October 10, 1990, by a 15-year-old Kuwaiti girl who was publicly identified only as Nayirah at the time, and presented herself as having been a volunteer nurse at a Kuwaiti hospital at the time of the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. In her testimony, which took place two months after the invasion, she claimed to have witnessed Iraqi soldiers taking premature babies out of incubators in a maternity ward before looting the incubators and leaving the babies to die on the floor. Nayirah's statements were widely publicized and cited numerous times in the United States Senate and by American president George H. W. Bush to contribute to the rationale for pursuing military action against Iraq. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Nayirah testimony is the 212th most popular social activist (up from 228th in 2019). (up from 1,207th in 2019)

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Nayirah testimony ranks 212 out of 840. Before her are Lalla Fatma N'Soumer, Mangal Pandey, Emily Davison, Guru Ram Das, Viktors Arājs, and Jacques Roux. After her are Moses Montefiore, Chen Sheng, Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence, Huda Sha'arawi, Fred Phelps, and Kittur Chennamma.