The Next Iraqi War?. George Packer.
by Packer, George; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2006Article 21Human Relations. Publisher: New Yorker, 2004ISSN: 1522-3248;.Subject(s): Arabs | Ethnic cleansing | Ethnic groups -- Iraq | Ethnic relations | Hussein | Iraq -- Ethnic relations | Kirkuk (Iraq) | Kurds -- Iraq | TurkmenDDC classification: 050 Summary: "The process of emptying out the Kirkuk citadel was the climax of a forty-year campaign known to Iraqis as Arabization. Beginning in 1963, and continuing up to the eve of the American invasion last year, the Baathist regime in Baghdad deported tens of thousands of Kurds--some Kurdish sources put the number at three hundred thousand--from Kirkuk and the surrounding region, forced other ethnic minorities from their houses, and imported similar numbers of Arabs to Kirkuk from the south." (NEW YORKER) This article examines "what Kirkuk's struggle to reverse Saddam's ethnic cleansing signals for the future of Iraq."| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: The Next Iraqi War?, Oct. 4, 2004; pp. 64-77.
"The process of emptying out the Kirkuk citadel was the climax of a forty-year campaign known to Iraqis as Arabization. Beginning in 1963, and continuing up to the eve of the American invasion last year, the Baathist regime in Baghdad deported tens of thousands of Kurds--some Kurdish sources put the number at three hundred thousand--from Kirkuk and the surrounding region, forced other ethnic minorities from their houses, and imported similar numbers of Arabs to Kirkuk from the south." (NEW YORKER) This article examines "what Kirkuk's struggle to reverse Saddam's ethnic cleansing signals for the future of Iraq."
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