Biography

Ahmed Brindar Chicho was born in 1920 in the village of Shifke, Mergasor district, Erbil province. He married in the Soviet Union; his wife was from the Tatar people of the Crimean Peninsula in the Republic of Ukraine. On July 31, 1983, while he was in the Qushtapa complex, he was disappeared by the government of Iraq during the Anfal process of the Barzanis.

Struggle Record

On May 23, 1947, he accompanied General Mustafa Barzani towards the Soviet Union and participated in the Battle of Gali Qotur and the Battle of Mako 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, towards the Soviet Union.

After reaching the Soviet Union, on June 19, 1947, along with all his companions in the city of Nakhchivan in the Republic of Azerbaijan, they were placed for forty days in an open-air compound surrounded by barbed wire and were guarded by a group of soldiers, and were treated as 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, Ayolakh, 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 eight hours of military training daily. At the same time, for four hours a day, they were taught Kurdish language lessons by some of their companions who were literate.

After the mistreatment of his companions by Jafar Baghirov, 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, along with his companions, they were distributed in groups and squads by train among the collective villages of the Soviet Union and worked on the collective farms (the lands that people rented from the government and later gave the government's share back).

After much effort and sending several letters by General Barzani to Stalin, finally a letter reached Stalin in which Barzani describes the hardships of his companions, and he immediately decides to form a committee to investigate the situation of Barzani's companions, and finally the committee's decision is 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.

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 working with article (11) based on the amended Law No. 19 of 1959, he and his companions were covered by the general amnesty.

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

On July 31, 1983, during the Anfal process of the Barzanis, he was disappeared by the government of Iraq in the Qushtapa complex.

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