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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. In her testimony, which took place two months after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, she claimed to have witnessed Iraqi soldiers taking babies out of incubators at a Kuwaiti hospital 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

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nayirah testimony has received more than 1,331,449 page views. Her biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Nayirah testimony is the 227th most popular social activist (down from 218th in 2019).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Nayirah testimony ranks 227 out of 840. Before her are Czesława Kwoka, Guillaume Cale, Huber Matos, Hrant Dink, Hanns Martin Schleyer, and Juliana of Stolberg. After her are Eunus, Haim Arlosoroff, Édouard René de Laboulaye, Ludolf von Alvensleben, C. Rajagopalachari, and Kate Sheppard.