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1999 — Very Good English Paperback. 4to. (28 x 20 cm). In English. 109, [1] p. Arabization of the Kirkuk region. Preface by Lord Avebury. According to the latest report of the UN Special reporter on Iraq, Max van der Stole, Iraq remains by far and away the state with the largest number of cases of disappearance. There are hundreds of thusands Iraqi refugees in Iran, Saudi Arabia and Turkey, and tens of thousands more are de facto refugees in Jordan. But in addition to those who vanished into thin air, or fled into exile, there are uncounted numbers of internally displaced. The Marsh Arabs of the south are not the only victims of Saddam's terror, as Dr. Talabany shows, and the systematic alteration of the population mix in the Qirquq region has been going on for much longer. It began almost imeediately after the Ba'thists assumed power by coup d'etat in 1968 and, in the process, tens of thousands of Kurdish families have been forcibly transported into exile. This atrocity, in the worst tradition of the late Joseph Stalin, has been uncountably overlooked in the west, yet it has profounds implicatins for any post-Saddam settlement in Iraq. Wiill the dispossessed be restored to their homes and lands, as we insist in the case of Bosnia? Or is ethnic cleansing permissible when it doe quietly enough? Prof .Talabany has done the world a valuable service in exposing Saddam's ethnocidal designs against the Kurdish people of Qirquq. Let this be added to the list of crimes against humanity for which, one day, Inshallah, he will be made to pay!". (From preface of Lord Avebury, Chairman, Parliamentary Human Rights Group). Contents: Table of Contents. Foreword by Lord Avebury. Preface. I - A synopsis of the history and geography of the Kirkuk Region. II - The Non-Kurdish ethnic population in the Kirkuk Region: The Turkmans. 1. Origins. 2. Population Estimates. 3. Relations between Kurds and Turkmans. 4. Political Orientations of the Turkmans. IlI - Earliest Attempts at Arabization. A - The period of the monarchy. The role of the oil company in changing the ethnic character of the city of Kirkuk. The building of the Hawija Irrigation Project to settle Arab tribes in the Kirkuk Region. B - The period from 1958 to 1968. Measures towards Arabization taken by the February 1963 coup organizers in the Kirkuk Governorate. C - The period from 1968 to the present. Measures taken by the Iraq regime inside the city of Kirkuk. Measures taken by the regime to Arabize the entire Kirkuk Governorate. 1. City District of Kirkuk. 2. Dubz District (Arabized to Al-Debiss). 3. Hawija District. 4. Chamchamal District. 5. Duz-Khurmatu (Tuz-Khormatu) District. 6. Kifri District. 7. Kala'r District. IV The result of Arabization and destruction of the Kirkuk Region. Appendices. This book was first published in Arabic in 1995, both in Sweden and Iraqi Kurdistan. A Second Edition was published in 1999 in London. In 1998, it was translated into Kurdish and published in Sweden and later, in 2000, in Iraqi Kurdistan. Second Edition.