Word: bangladeshis
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most of the refugees, however, nothing could be worse than being trapped in Iraq or Kuwait. "It's all a bloody mess there, with people running about scared as cats on a griddle," reports Mansoor Hassan, 21, a Bangladeshi who was visiting his parents in Kuwait when the invasion started. "The Iraqis treated us like dogs and called us pigs," says an Egyptian laborer who escaped from Kuwait. "They took all my savings and even this month's pay. I have a wife and six children in Cairo, and I will have no work when I return. We will starve...