Category "C" claims were individual claims for damages up to US$100,000 each. Category "C" claims included twenty-one different types of losses, including those relating to departure from Kuwait or Iraq; personal injury; mental pain and anguish; loss of personal property; loss of bank accounts, stocks and other securities; loss of income; loss of real property; and individual business losses. The Commission received approximately 1.7 million category "C" claims submitted by eighty-five Governments and eight offices of three international organisations, seeking a total of approximately US$11.5 billion in compensation. This includes a consolidated category "C" claim submitted by the Central Bank of the Government of Egypt on behalf of over 800,000 workers in Iraq for the non-transfer of remittances by Iraqi banks to beneficiaries in Egypt. This consolidated Egyptian category "C" claim comprised 1,240,000 individual claims with an asserted value of approximately US$491 million.
Category "C" claims were processed in seven instalments. In June 1999, the Commission concluded the processing of category "C" claims, with the exception of certain "late-filed" claims which were processed between 2003 and 2005. The reports of the panel of Commissioners for this category can be found here.
The Governing Council awarded more than US$5.1 billion in compensation to successful category "C" claimants.
Image of pie chart showing the number of claims, broken down by country, which were awarded compensation under category C. 311,601 were awarded to Egypt; 193,989 were awarded to Kuwait; 40,374 were awarded to Jordan; 38,891 were awarded to India; 20,167 were awarded to Syria; 11,683 were awarded to Pakistan; 8,669 were awarded to Bangladesh; 7,281 were awarded to Palestine; 5,769 were awarded to the Philippines; 5,304 were awarded to Sudan; and 28,791 were awarded to other countries.
Image of pie chart showing the amount of compensation awarded in US dollars, broken down by country, under category C claims. $1,980,974,047 was awarded to Kuwait; $877,116,713 was awarded to Egypt; $619,138,909 was awarded to Jordan; $471,978,411 was awarded to India; $253,214,973 was awarded to Syria; $162,528,194 was awarded to Pakistan; $122,211,953 was awarded to Palestine; $96,110,475 was awarded to Yemen; $82,014,622 was awarded to Bangladesh; $76,970,434 was awarded to the United Kingdom; and $447,034,893 was awarded to other countries.
Relevant decisions of the Governing Council - Category C
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