Biography

Aziz Hussein Mirxan was born in 1925 in the village of Bedarun, affiliated with the Goratu sub-district in the Mergasor district of Erbil province. In 1954, he was admitted to the Faculty of Agriculture at Tashkent University. In 1975, after the collapse of the Aylul Revolution, he went as a refugee to the Kingdom of Iran and settled in the Zewe complex, and was later transferred to the city of Karaj. He returned to Kurdistan in 1998.

Struggle Record

In 1943, he joined the ranks of the Second Barzan Revolution, participated in the capture of the police stations of Ble, Rezan, and Barzan. On October 12, 1943, he participated in the capture of the Kherezok police station. On August 19, 1945, by order of the Iraqi military court, all his movable and immovable property was seized. On September 5, 1945, he participated in the capture of the Meydan Morik police station. After the collapse of the Second Barzan Revolution on October 11, 1945, he headed to Eastern Kurdistan and settled in the village of Inderqash. On March 31, 1946, he served as a Peshmerga in the Barzan force affiliated with the army of the Republic of Kurdistan in Mahabad. On April 29, 1946, he participated in the Battle of Qarawa in the Saqqez region (Eastern Kurdistan). After the collapse of the Republic of Kurdistan, on March 3, 1947, he participated in the Battle of Nelos (Eastern Kurdistan).

After the collapse of the Republic of Kurdistan, he was among the Peshmerga who returned on April 19, 1947, through the Khwakurk route and the Barazgar plain to the land of Northern Kurdistan, from the village of Khwakurk to the village of Argosh and the Herki region.

After their return, General Mustafa Barzani On May 6, 1947, in the village of Argosh, he held a meeting with his companions and gave them the choice to stay or go to the Soviet Union. There, all his companions decided to continue and go to the Soviet Union.

 On May 22, 1947, he accompanied General Mustafa Barzani towards the Soviet Union and participated in the Battle of Geli Kotol (Qotur) and the Battle of the Maku Bridge. After much hardship and fatigue, on June 18, 1947, at the Aras River, which is located on the border between Iran and the Soviet Union, he crossed into the Soviet Union..‌

After arriving 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, guarded by a group of soldiers, and were treated like prisoners of war in terms of food, clothing, and movement. Later, by 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 transferred 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 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 lessons in the Kurdish language by some of their companions who were literate..

After the mistreatment of Barzani's companions by Jafar Baghirov, 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, where 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 on the collective farms (Kolkhoz) (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, a letter finally 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 Aziz Hussein 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 Abdul Karim Qasim.، Aziz Hussein 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..

In 1961, he participated in the Aylul Revolution. In 1962, he participated in the battles of Haji Omaran, Geli Shahidan, and Dilman. On July 11, 1962, he participated in the capture of the Rayat police station, and in 1963, he participated in the Battle of Sari Pirsi. In 1980, he participated in the Gulan Revolution and participated in the battles. On December 16, 2010, at the Thirteenth Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, due to his struggle and resistance in the Second Barzan Revolution, the Mahabad Republic, the path to the Soviet Union, the Aylul Revolution, and the Gulan Revolution, he was awarded the Barzani the Immortal Medal by President Masoud Barzani.

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