Biography

Azo Qasim Ibrahim was born in 1930 in the village of Babke, affiliated with the Piran district in the Mergasor district of Erbil province.

Struggle Record

Aziz Qasim Ibrahim, on May 23, 1947, accompanied General Mustafa Barzani towards the Soviet Union and participated in the Battle of Qotur and the Battle of Mako Bridge. 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 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, and were guarded by a group of soldiers. In terms of food, clothing, and movement, they were treated like prisoners of war. 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 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 the officers of the Republic of Azerbaijan, were given eight hours of military training daily. At the same time, for four hours daily, they were taught the Kurdish language by some of their companions who were literate.

After the bad treatment of Jafar Bagirov towards the companions, it was decided that the military camp would be moved on August 29, 1948, from the Republic of Azerbaijan to the Charchuk compound near Tashkent, the capital of the Republic of Uzbekistan, and there 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 took back 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 described the hardships of his companions, and he immediately decided to form a committee to investigate the situation of Barzani's companions. Finally, 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 leadership of Abdul Karim Qasim, so he returned to Kurdistan on April 16, 1959, along with his companions on the ship Grozia via the port of Basra in southern Iraq. After the outbreak of the Aylul Revolution, Azo Qasim joined the revolution in 1964 and participated in the battles.

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