Ba'athist Arabization campaigns in North Iraq refer to the implementation of forced displacement and the cultural
Arabization of minorities (
Kurds,
Yezidis,
Assyrians,
Shabaks,
Armenians,
Turkmen,
Mandeans), in line with
settler colonialist policies, led by the Ba'athist government of Iraq from the 1960s to the early 2000s, in order to shift the demographics of North Iraq towards Arab domination. The Baath party under
Saddam Hussein engaged in active expulsion of minorities from the mid-1970s onwards. In 1978 and 1979, 600 Kurdish villages were burned down and around 200,000 Kurds were deported to the other parts of the country.