Biography

Abdullah Said Ahmad was born in 1920 in the village of Khelan in the Mezne district of the Mergasor district, which is part of the Erbil province. He passed away in 1989 in Mergewer in East Kurdistan.

Work history

Abdullah Said Ahmad went to the Soviet Union with General Mustafa Barzani on 23 May 1947 and participated in the Qitur Valley battle and the Mako Bridge battle. After many hardships and difficulties, he crossed the Aras River on the border of Iran and the Soviet Union into the Soviet Union on 18 June 1947.

After their arrival in the Soviet Union, on 19 June 1947, he and all his friends were placed in a closed camp in the city of Nakhchivan in the Republic of Azerbaijan for forty days, which was surrounded by barbed wire. They were guarded by a group of soldiers and were treated like prisoners of war in terms of food, clothing, and transportation. Later, by the decision of the Soviet state, they were distributed in Azerbaijan in the regions of Aghdam, Lachin, Ayulakh, and Kalbajar. On 10 December 1947, they were transferred to a military base 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 underwent 8 hours of military training daily under the supervision of officers of the Republic of Azerbaijan. At the same time, they received four hours of Kurdish language lessons daily from some of their educated friends.

After the bad treatment of his friends by Jafar Bakirov, it was decided on 29 August 1948 to move the military camp from the Republic of Azerbaijan to the Chirchuk community near Tashkent, the capital of the Republic of Uzbekistan, and they continued their military training there.

In March 1949, he and his friends were distributed in groups by train to the villages of the Soviet Union and worked in the fields of the kolkhozes (lands that people had received from the state and then gave the government's share).

After much effort and sending several letters from General Barzani to Stalin, finally a letter reached Stalin in which Barzani described the pain and suffering of his friends, and he immediately gave the order to form a committee to investigate the situation of Barzani's friends, and in the end, the committee's decision was to gather them all in the city of Vriviski. For this reason, the aforementioned went to the city of Vriviski in the Soviet Union in November 1951.

In 1958, the Republic of Iraq was established under the leadership of Abdul Karim Qasim. The aforementioned returned to Kurdistan on 16 April 1959 with his friends on the ship Girozya through the port of Basra in the south of the Republic of Iraq.

In 1962, he participated in the September Revolution and participated in the battles. In 1983, after the defeat of the September Revolution he migrated to Iran and in the same year participated in the Gulan Revolution and participated in the battles with the rank of Major.

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