In the year 1995, the British government formally announced that there are more than 300,000 stateless Bedoon from Kuwait. At the House of Commons, it was announced that the Al Sabah ruling family forcibly moved 150,000 stateless Bedoon into concentration camps in the Kuwaiti desert near the Iraqi border with minimal water, insufficient food, and no basic shelter. The Kuwaiti authorities also threatened to murder the stateless Bedoon if they returned to their houses in Kuwait City. As a result, many of the stateless Bedoon fled to Iraq where they still remain stateless people even today.