Baghdad's ethnic-cleansing campaign against the country's non-Arab citizens is continuing (for earlier reports on Arabization of Kurds, see "RFE/RL Iraq Report," 26 April 2002, and of Assyrians, see "RFE/RL Iraq Report," 15 February 2002). New groups of Arab families are being settled in the villages of Girdashina and Gultepe in the Makhmur Administrative District and they are receiving land that belonged to the previous Kurdish occupants, the Kurdistan Democratic Party newspaper "Khabat" reported on 26 April. "Khabat" also reported that Kurdish shepherds in Makhmur are not allowed to conduct business in the square designated for that purpose. Some 140 villages in Kandinawa and Qaraj have been Arabized completely and their inhabitants have been deported. Moreover, the central authorities have prevented the Kurds in the Dibagah Administrative Subdistrict from visiting the graves of their relatives, the KDP newspaper "Brayati" reported on 22 April, and the tombstones have been defaced by the addition of Arabic names. According to "Brayati," inhabitants of all the villages in this subdistrict were expelled, and the regime brought in Arabs as the new residents. (Bill Samii)