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3 - Between Reconciliation and Repression

Baʿthist Policies toward the Assyrians in the 1970s

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2022

Alda Benjamen
Alda Benjamen
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University of California, Berkeley
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Chapter 3 analyzes the early period of Baʿthist rule during the 1970s, arguing that the activities of Assyrians in the Iraqi opposition and the influence of diasporic organizations on Western governments led the Baʿth to adopt conciliatory policies. These included Law 251, which extended cultural and linguistic rights to “Speakers of the Syriac Language” in April 1972. Yet rural Assyrians were not fully convinced. The community as a whole continued to navigate between the state and the opposition, negotiating for more rights within the volatile and temporary space opened up under circumstances of political instability.

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Iraqi Baʿth partystate policiesnegotiation and repression
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Assyrians in Modern Iraq
Negotiating Political and Cultural Space
 , pp. 113 - 142
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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