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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link)Although the Kurds of Syria have not engaged in armed conflict with the state, they were targeted for ethnic cleansing beginning in the early 1960s. Some 120,000 Kurds were stripped of Syrian citizenship. According to a 1991 report by the Middle East Watch, the Syrian government planned for the depopulation of Kurdish regions by creating an "Arab belt" along the Turkish border, evicting peasants from 332 villages, and replacing them with Arab settlers.
… the "Arab belt" policy, which aimed to put into practice ethnic cleansing and the dispossession of "non-national" land-owner classes (Kurds) and the transfer of land to "national" elements (Arabs).
… the "Arab belt" policy, which aimed to put into practice ethnic cleansing and the dispossession of "non-national" land-owner classes (Kurds) and the transfer of land to "national" elements (Arabs).
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