Biography

Abdulkarim Ibrahim was born in the village of Kalet, affiliated with the Shemdinan district. He passed away on March 21, 1970.

Struggle History

Abdulkarim Ibrahim, on May 23, 1947, accompanied General Mustafa Barzani towards the Soviet Union and participated in the Battle of Qotur and the Battle of the Maku Bridge. After much hardship and fatigue, on June 18, 1947, he crossed the Aras River, which is located on the border between Iran and the Soviet Union, towards the Soviet Union.

After their arrival in the Soviet Union, on June 19, 1947, along with all his companions, they were placed in the city of Nakhchivan in the Republic of Azerbaijan for forty days in an open-air complex surrounded by barbed wire, and were guarded by a group of soldiers, and were treated like prisoners of war in terms of food, clothing, and movement. Later, by the decision of the Soviet government, they were distributed among the areas of Aghdam, Lachin, Ayulakh, and Kalbajar in the Republic of Azerbaijan. On December 10, 1947, they were moved to a military camp on the Caspian Sea in Baku, the capital of the Republic of Azerbaijan, and on the 23rd of the same month, they were given military uniforms and, under the supervision of the officers of the Republic of Azerbaijan, they were given military training for eight hours daily. At the same time, for four hours daily, they were taught lessons in learning the Kurdish language by some of their companions who were literate.

After the bad treatment of Jafar Bagirov towards his companions, it was decided to move the military camp on August 29, 1948, from the Republic of Azerbaijan to the Charchuk complex near Tashkent, the capital of the Republic of Uzbekistan, and there they continued their military training. 

In March 1949, along with his companions, they were distributed in groups and squads by train to the collective villages of the Soviet Union and worked in the collective farms (the lands that people took back from the government and later gave the government's share). 

After much effort and sending several letters by General Barzani to Stalin, finally a letter reached Stalin in which Barzani described the hardships of his companions, and he immediately decided to form a committee to investigate the situation of Barzani's companions, and finally the committee's decision was that they should all be gathered in the city of Vriviski, so he went to the city of Vriviski in the Soviet Union in November 1951.

In 1958, the Republic of Iraq was established under the presidency of Abdulkarim Qasim, so he returned to Kurdistan on April 16, 1959, with his companions on the ship Grozia via the port of Basra in the south of the Republic of Iraq.  

Sources:

1- In the memoir of the martyr commander Haso Mirxan Zhazhoki, 62 days with Barzani, the going of the Barzanis to the Soviet Union, first edition (Erbil - Roshnbiri Printing House - 1997).

2- Masoud Barzani, Barzani and the Kurdish Liberation Movement 1931-1958, (Duhok - Khabat Printing House - 1998).

3- Archive of the Encyclopedia Board of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.