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Kuwait City: The government has criticised Kuwaiti Shiites who took part in a ceremony eulogising Hezbollah's slain commander, Emad Mughnieh, and warned that it could cause civil strife.
Hundreds of Shiites gathered on Saturday in a suburb here to mourn Mughnieh, who was killed in a car bomb last week in Syria, as a martyr and hero.
The ceremony drew condemnation from the country's majority Sunnis, who accuse Mughnieh of being linked to a 1988 hijacking of a Kuwait Airways flight that left two Kuwaiti passengers dead.
"The Cabinet regrets and condemns the eulogising and glorifying by some of a terrorist whose hands have been stained with the blood of martyrs," said a Cabinet statement carried by the official Kuwait News Agency.
His death was a "just punishment from God," so the souls of the two Kuwaitis would rest in peace, it added.
The Cabinet said the eulogy has "provoked" Kuwaitis who usually shun civil strife and said the government has taken "legal measures that would safeguard national unity." It did not elaborate.
- With additional inputs from Laila Ali
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