Arabization

IJAZ: Yes, this is what I referred to as the Arabization of this conflict.

CNN Transcript Oct 29, 2001 2001

Though different tribal and ethnic languages are spoken, Arabic is Sudan's official language and a so-called Arabization program of the government is underway.

CNN Transcript Jun 12, 2007 2007

There's also a good deal of bitterness in that area because Saddam Hussein has carried out a program called Arabization, which involves the expulsion of Kurds and Turkoman and Syrians and other minorities from areas like Kirkuk and their replacement with Arab Sunni -- or rather Arab Shiites from the southern part of the country.

CNN Transcript Apr 7, 2003 2003

This "Arabization" policy culminated in the 1988 "Anfal" genocide campaign against the Kurds.

Peter Bouckaert: Iraq: Deadly Reminders of Unfinished Business Peter Bouckaert 2010

This "Arabization" policy culminated in the 1988 "Anfal" genocide campaign against the Kurds.

Peter Bouckaert: Iraq: Deadly Reminders of Unfinished Business Peter Bouckaert 2010

This "Arabization" policy culminated in the 1988 "Anfal" genocide campaign against the Kurds.

Peter Bouckaert: Iraq: Deadly Reminders of Unfinished Business Peter Bouckaert 2010

This "Arabization" policy culminated in the 1988 "Anfal" genocide campaign against the Kurds.

Peter Bouckaert: Iraq: Deadly Reminders of Unfinished Business Peter Bouckaert 2010

This "Arabization" policy culminated in the 1988 "Anfal" genocide campaign against the Kurds.

Peter Bouckaert: Iraq: Deadly Reminders of Unfinished Business Peter Bouckaert 2010

In the ethnically mixed city of Kirkuk, the Iraqi regime forcibly displaced tens of thousands of Kurds as part of Saddam's discriminatory "Arabization" policy.

Jeff Johnson: Iraq's Struggle for Civil Rights 2009

Languages: Arabic (official), Nubian, Ta Bedawie, diverse dialects of Nilotic, Nilo-Hamitic, Sudanic languages, English; note: program of "Arabization" in process

Sudan 2009