Kuwait to deport stateless protesters: report

[FarCenter]

KUWAIT CITY: Kuwait has decided to deport stateless people who took part in protests demanding citizenship which turned violent, newspapers reported Tuesday.

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Other measures included dismissing all bidoons from the army and the police force if they or their children attended the protests, and evicting them from housing provided by the government.

The government also decided to confiscate security IDs from any protester bidoons, their only form of identification, and cancel their applications for Kuwaiti nationality.

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Kuwait says only 34,000 out of the 105,000 bidoons present in the Gulf state are eligible for citizenship, while the remaining 71,000 are citizens of other countries who must produce their original passports.

Read more: http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2012/Jan-17/160144-kuwait-to-deport-stateless-protesters-report.ashx

[jberryhill]

1. Intel did some early work with stateless processors

But you had to compensate for it with a lot more software and long route interconnections on the chip. As transistor sizes continued to drop, it proved to be a dead end.