Nazdar ciziri biography of albert

Ba'athist ethnic cleansing policy in Syrian Kurdistan

The Arab Belt (Arabic: الحزام العربي, al-hizām al-ʿarabī; Kurdish: Kembera Erebî, که‌مبه‌را عه‌ره‌بی) was the Syrian Ba'athist government's project of Arabization of the north of the Al-Hasakah Governorate to change its ethnic composition of the population in favor of Arabs to the detriment of other ethnic groups, particularly Kurds.^[3][4]

It involved the seizure of land which was then settled with Arabs displaced by the creation of Lake Assad.

The programme was implemented in 1973; forcibly deporting around 140,000 Kurds and confiscating their lands around a 180-mile strip. Thousands of Arab settlers coming from Raqqa were then granted these lands to establish settlements.^[5][2]

Background

Main article: Kurdish immigration into Syria

Until the beginning of the 20th century, the Jazira province was a “no man’s land” primarily reserved for the grazing land of