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Baath Party

Baath Party Baath Party
alternative words: Ba'ath Party, Baath
keywords: organization
related topics: Saddam Hussein
related web sites: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baath_Party , http://www.iraqinews.com/party_baath_party.shtml , http://www.baath-party.org
explanation: Secular pan-Arabic party founded in Damascus, Syria in 1947, of which ideologies is based on 3 dogmas: Freedom (from colonialism), Unity (of Arabic nations) and Socialism. They arrived to the power in February 1963 in Iraq and one month later in Syria. After successive internal struggles and purges, the moderate wings were progressively eliminated and the dictatorship was established: by Saddam Hussein in Iraq and Hafez al-Assad in Syria. Baath means "renaissance" in Arabic.


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