Except for the Kurds, that doesn't seem to be want the groups in Iraq want. I wasn't aware that libertarians were generally in favor of imposed religious- and/or ethnicity-based balkanization against the will of the people.
I suspect that would actually work against libertarianism, also, because greater ideological uniformity in the constituency would support more authoritarian government (light touch is a way of accommodating divergent interests which would be eliminated).
Thats not a ideology thing, that is more a "Real-Politics" that worked with pakistan and india - kind of approach.
This is probably not the best place to ask these types of questions, but 'libertarianism' seems to come up on here so often, I had to ask.
This is literally what ethnic cleansing means, and is of course the opposite of any kind of liberty - it creates a place where you can't walk down the street without being of the right ethnicity/religion.
This is essentially what had to be dismantled in Northern Ireland - it was under the control of one "group" usually defined as Protestant. Transferring it to a situation under human rights law where all religions could live with equal protection under the law (including protection from the state and police by means of human rights law) was critical to ending the conflict.
None of the Catalan, Basque (this is the usual English spelling, are you perhaps thinking of the Russian Басков?) or Scottish independence movements have ethnic cleansing ambitions, although these are usually attributed to them by their enemies.
Construction and definition of a nation state is a complex issue not reducible to glib remarks about "liberty".
If one group have ethnic cleansing ambitions they will do it anyway. This whole "equal protection and human rights" rhetoric is laughable where on group seriously oppresses other. It is better off that all groups live in more autonomy and if one is not happy, moving to another place is better than living under threat. Of course, this is not the "liberty" people are longing for, but it is the preferable choice.
"The SNP believe that immigration is essential to the strength of our economy and adds greatly to our cultural fabric."
https://www.snp.org/pb_what_is_the_snp_s_policy_on_immigrati...
The SNP is sometimes described as being about civic nationalism rather than ethnic nationalism:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civic_nationalism
Edit: Arguably the closest we've got to ethnic cleansing was the Highland Clearances - which were inflicted on Gaels by landowners.