Ba'ath Party: Difference between revisions

|Image       = Ba'ath.png

|commanders = [[Bashar al-Assad]] (Syria)<br>[[Salah Al-Mukhtar]] (Iraq)

|goals = Conquer Iraq and Syria (succeeded)<br>Unify the Arab world into one country under a leadership of a vanguard party over a progressive revolutionary government (failed)

|crimes = [[Terrorism]]<br>[[War crimes]]<br>[[Mass murder]]<br>[[Genocide]]<br>Oppression<br>Human rights violations<br>[[Xenophobia]]<br>[[Anti-Semitism]]<br>[[Persecution of Christians]]<br>[[Anti-Japanese sentiment]]

|type of villains = Power Hungry Political Group|dissolution = February 23, 1966}}

The '''Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party''' (Arabic: حزب البعث العربي الاشتراكي‎ ''Ḥizb Al-Ba‘ath Al-‘Arabī Al-Ishtirākī [ˈħɪzb alˈbaʕaθ alˈʕarabiː alˈʔɪʃtɪraːki''ː]) was a political party founded in Syria by Michel Aflaq, Salah al-Din al-Bitar, and associates of Zaki al-Arsuzi. The party espoused Ba'athism (from Arabic: ''البعث‎ Al-Ba'ath or Ba'ath'', meaning "renaissance" or "resurrection"), which is an ideology mixing Arab nationalist, pan-Arabism, Arab socialist, and anti-imperialist interests. Ba'athism calls for unification of the Arab world into a single state. Its motto, "Unity, Liberty, Socialism", refers to Arab unity, and freedom from non-Arab control and interference.

 

The original Ba'ath Party was split up in 1966 into the Iraqi and Syrian regional commands. The Syrian Ba'ath Party serves as the current ruling party of Syria and is lead by current President of Syria [[Bashar al-Assad]] (and was lead by Bashar's father, [[Hafez al-Assad]], during his rule of the country from 1971 to 2000.) The Iraqi Ba'ath Party was in power in Iraq from 1963 (initially lead by [[Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr]] and later by [[Saddam Hussein]]) until being overthrown by the United States and its coalition during the [[Iraq War]] in 2003. The Iraqi Ba'ath Party continues to function; they were lead by [[Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri]] until his death in 2020 and also maintain an armed wing, the [[Army of the Men of the Naqshbandi Order]].

The Regional Branch seized power in the Ramadan Revolution. The coup was led by leading Regional Branch member [[Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr]]. The plotters appointed [[Abdul Salam Arif]], a Nasserite, to the Presidency while al-Bakr was appointed the country's Prime Minister. However, real power was in the hands of Ali Salih al-Sadi, the branch's Regional Secretary. After taking power, the Regional Branch through its militia, the National Guard, initiated what Iraqi expert Con Coughlin referred to as an "orgy of violence" against communist and left-wing elements. These repressive measures coupled with factionalism within the Regional Branch led to the November 1963 Iraqi coup d'état by President Arif and his Nasserite supporters. Iraq expert Malik Mufti believes Aflaq may have supported Arif's coup because it weakened al-Sadi's position within the party and strengthened his own. The coup forced the branch to go underground. Because of the coup, several leading Ba'athist were jailed, such as al-Bakr and Saddam. Despite this, the Regional Branch elected al-Bakr as Regional Secretary in 1964.

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