Biography

Abdulrahman Habib Abubakr was born in 1927 in the village of Bedarun, affiliated with the Gortu sub-district of Mergasor district in Erbil province. He was originally from the village of Piresale. On June 21, 1932, he and his family became refugees in the Republic of Turkey. After going to the Soviet Union in 1950, he married Diliara Astaruna Islam; they had a son and a daughter named Jamila (1951) and Mujahid (1955). Abdulrahman Habib studied in the Soviet Union and received an institute diploma from the Party School University in 1953. In 1958, he obtained a bachelor's degree in history from the Central Asian University. He passed away on January 28, 2001, and was buried in the Piresale cemetery.

Struggle Record

Abdulrahman Habib Abubakr, on October 11, 1945, after the collapse of the second Barzan revolution, went with his family to East Kurdistan. After the fall of the Republic and his return to South Kurdistan, on May 23, 1947, he accompanied General Mustafa Barzani to the Soviet Union. He participated in the Battle of Qatur and the Battle of Maku Bridge, and 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, into the Soviet Union.

After arriving in the Soviet Union, on June 19, 1947, he and all his companions were placed in the city of Nakhchivan in the Republic of Azerbaijan for forty days in an open-air compound 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 movement. Later, by the decision of the Soviet government, they were distributed among the regions 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, were given eight hours of military training daily. At the same time, they were taught the Kurdish language daily for four hours by some of their companions who were literate.

After the mistreatment of his companions by Jafar Bagirov, it was decided to move the military camp on August 29, 1948, from the Republic of Azerbaijan to the Charchuk compound near Tashkent, the capital of the Republic of Uzbekistan, where they continued their military training. 

In March 1949, he and his companions were distributed in groups and squads by train to the collective villages of the Soviet Union and worked on the Kolkhoz farms (lands that people rented from the government and later gave their share to the government). 

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

After the July 14, 1958 revolution in Iraq and the return of General Mustafa Barzani on February 25, 1959, and according to both the third and seventh articles and paragraph (A) of the tenth article, and by applying Article (11) based on the amended Law No. 19 of 1959, he and his companions were covered by a general amnesty. 

In 1958, the Republic of Iraq was established under the presidency of Abdul Karim Qasim. On April 16, 1959, he and his companions returned to Kurdistan via the port of Basra in the south of the Republic of Iraq on the ship Gruzia. After the outbreak of the Aylul Revolution he participated in the revolution and took part in the battles. 

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