de-Baathification
English edit
Alternative forms edit
- de-Ba'thification, de-Baʻthification (stricter transliterations)
- de-Ba'athification, deba'athification, de-Bathification, debathification (nonstandard, proscribed transliterations)
Etymology edit
From de- + Baath + -ification. Modeled on denazification, a similar concept employed against the conquered Nazi government following the Second World War.
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -eɪʃən
Noun edit
de-Baathification (uncountable)
- The policy of removing Baath party members from Iraqi government positions following the fall of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.
- 2006, Anthony Shadid, Night draws near: Iraq's people in the shadow of America's war, page 322:
- From informing the Bush administration that Iraqis would welcome U.S. troops with flowers to urging a methodical and comprehensive de-Baathification program under which tens of thousands of people lost their jobs through guilt by association, she said, the errors in the exiles' counsel only mounted and multiplied.
- 2014 January 4, Marina Ottaway, “Analysis: Anbar violence goes beyond sectarian conflict in Iraq”, in BBC News:
- Mr Maliki has worsened the situation by allowing and encouraging purges of Iraqi politicians in the name of de-Baathification and largely discontinuing the US-initiated policy of working with Sunni tribal leaders and their militias - the so-called Sons of Iraq - to isolate al-Qaeda.