Aziz Dirawi

First Name:
Aziz
Last Name:
Dirawi
Gender:
Male
Date of Birth:
1950
Marital Status:
Married
Have Children:
Yes
Number of Children:
7
Occupation:
Construction worker
Date of Disappearance:
17/9/1982
Age at the time of Disappearance:
32
Location of the Disappearance:
Next to the Kuwaiti embassy, Next to the Kuwaiti embassy, Lebanon
Last Seen Date:
17/9/1982
Last Seen Location:
Airport square, Beirut, Lebanon

Description of the missing person

Aziz was tall and slender. He had a golden tooth and dimples on his cheeks. He was cheerful and he loved people, and people loved him back and enjoyed visiting him. He loved his children very much. He had three daughters whose ages were two and a half, eight, and ten, and he had one two-year-old boy. He also had two daughters and two sons who passed away. Aziz enjoyed playing the accordion, the oud and the flute. Everyone loved listening to him play instruments. He wanted to become a professional musician.

Circumstances of the Disappearance

Aziz’s brother Mansour was making breakfast at the house and then left to get milk. Upon his return, there was a checkpoint, where he was held up and asked about his nationality and residence. Ibrahim, his other brother, went to the bottom of the building to find out why these people were holding him, but these men ascended the building and took Aziz and Ahmed and put them with Ibrahim and Mansour in trucks. They were held in the trucks at eight in the morning until 3:25 PM. Then they were placed in two trucks full of men and children and surrounded by tanks and headed on the road to the Kuwaiti embassy and the old airport. People at the airport square saw them as they were placing their hands on their heads.