Draft:Displacement of Arabs in Kirkuk under KRG administration

Displacement of Arabs in Kirkuk under KRG administration
Displacement of Arabs in Kirkuk under KRG administration
Part of War against the Islamic State
	KRG-controlled and disputed territories
Location	Kirkuk Governorate, Iraq
Date	2014, June - 2017, October
Target	Mainly Iraqi Arabs but also Iraqi Turkmens
Attack type	Forced displacement, Home demolition
Victims	90,000+ ; 1,200+ families forcibly evicted ; 43+ homes demolished ; Over 300,000 displaced Kurds returned to Kirkuk post-2003, reversing prior Arabization;
Perpetrator	Kurdistan Regional Government security forces
Motive	reversing Arabization from Saddam Hussein's rule

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The displacement of Arabs in Kirkuk refers to documented cases where Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) forces removed Arab residents from Kirkuk Governorate after taking control in 2014.

Background

When ISIS attacked Iraq in 2014, KRG Peshmerga forces took control of Kirkuk. After this, human rights groups reported KRG forces began evicting Arab families.^[2]

Displacement cases

2016: HRW documented KRG forces evicting 1,200+ Arab families from Kirkuk homes.^[2]
2021: The EU reported 90,000+ displaced Arabs couldn't return to Kirkuk.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Country Guidance: Iraq 2022 (Report). EUAA. 2022.
^ ^a ^b ^c "KRG: Kurdish Forces Ejecting Arabs from Kirkuk". Human Rights Watch. 3 November 2016.
^ Iraq: Kurdish authorities must end forced returns of displaced Arabs (PDF) (Report). Amnesty International. April 2017. p. 5. Documented 43 cases of Arab homes demolished by KRG forces in Kirkuk.

[EUAA20222-1] Country Guidance: Iraq 2022 (Report). EUAA. 2022.

[HRW20162-2] "KRG: Kurdish Forces Ejecting Arabs from Kirkuk". Human Rights Watch. 3 November 2016.

[3] Iraq: Kurdish authorities must end forced returns of displaced Arabs (PDF) (Report). Amnesty International. April 2017. p. 5. Documented 43 cases of Arab homes demolished by KRG forces in Kirkuk.

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