Biography

Aziz Qazi Hamad, was born in 1928 in the village of Afryan, affiliated with the Harir sub-district in the Shaqlawa district of Erbil province. He studied in the Soviet Union and on February 15, 1954, he was admitted to the History Department of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union University (Party School) in Tashkent, Soviet Union. On August 17, 1955, also in the Soviet Union, he married Zahida Banya Rais Muhammad, and on March 29, 1959, he was able to obtain a higher diploma degree.

Struggle History

In 1944, he joined the ranks of the Second Barzan Revolution. For this reason, on August 19, 1945, by order of the Military Tribunal, all his movable and immovable property was seized. On September 5, 1945, he participated in the capture of the Maydan Morik police station. On October 11, 1945, after the collapse of the Second Barzan Revolution, he headed to Eastern Kurdistan. On March 31, 1946, he served as a Peshmerga in the Barzan Force, affiliated with the army of the Republic of Kurdistan, in the 3rd Battalion of the Salih Kanialnji Division.

 After the collapse of the Republic of Kurdistan, on March 3, 1947, he participated in the Battle of Silo in Eastern Kurdistan. On March 3, 1947, he participated in the Battle of Nalos, on March 19, 1947, in the Battle of Naqada and Oshnavieh, and on March 24, 1947, in the Battle of Qarna in the Khaneh region.

 On April 19, 1947, he decided that under the command of General Mustafa Barzani he would continue the resistance. On May 23, 1947, he accompanied Barzani towards the Soviet Union. From June 9, 1947, to June 11, 1947, he participated in the battles of the Qotur Valley and the Maku Bridge. On June 18, 1947, he crossed the Aras River, which lies on the border between Iran and the Soviet Union, and 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 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 decision of the Soviet government, they were distributed across 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 Republic of Azerbaijan officers, were given eight hours of military training daily. At the same time, for four hours a day, they were taught lessons in learning the Kurdish language by some of their companions who were literate.

After the poor treatment by Jafar Baghirov towards his companions, 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 across the collective villages of the Soviet Union and worked on the Kolkhoz farms (lands that people rented from the government and later gave the government's share back).

After much effort and the sending of several letters by General 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.

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

By order number 3971 dated June 4, 1959, he was appointed as a Russian language teacher at the University of Baghdad and taught at the Military College. He also struggled within the borders of the 5th Branch of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in Baghdad. Together with Sayyid Aziz Sayyid Abdullah, they managed the party's organizational work among Kurdish officers and soldiers in the army to join the party's ranks.

On March 3, 1963, he participated in the Aylul Revolution. On August 28, 1963, he participated in the Battle of Taq Taq in Kifri. On November 15, 1964, he was a division head in the Bazian region. On March 3, 1965, he was the commander of the 9th Battalion of the Qaradagh Force, and in 1966, he was the commander of the 4th Battalion of the Qaradagh Force. On July 9, 1966, he participated in the Battle of the Sharazur Plain and lost his right eye. On May 6, 1967, he became the commander of the 9th Battalion of the Qaradagh Force again. On August 15, 1968, he was the commander of the 2nd Battalion of the Kawa Force. On February 11, 1969, for the third time, he was the commander of the 4th Battalion of the Qaradagh Force. After the March 11, 1970 agreement, he was made deputy commander of the 5th Border Guard Regiment. In 1971, he became deputy commander of the Qaradagh Force. In 1974, he became commander of the Kirkuk Force.

In 1975, after the collapse of the Aylul Revolution, he went to the Kingdom of Iran as a refugee and settled in the city of Naqada in Eastern Kurdistan, and on August 10, 1975, he moved his family to the city of Rasht. During his Peshmerga service, he was wounded five times. On May 17, 1976, he settled in the city of Sacramento, California.

 On October 13, 1999, in the Twelfth Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party due to his struggle and resistance in the Second Barzan Revolution, the Republic of Kurdistan, the path towards the Soviet Union, and the Aylul Revolution, he was awarded the Immortal Barzani Medal by President Masoud Barzani. On June 13, 2006, in the service of President  Masoud Barzani He became happy and passed away on the same day.

 

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