He was born in 1924 in the village of Lerebir, affiliated with the Goratu sub-district in the Mergasor district of Erbil province. He studied in the Soviet Union and in 1958 received a bachelor's degree in the Department of Agriculture. He knew Kurdish, Persian, Turkish, and Russian. He returned to Kurdistan in 1993 and passed away on September 17, 2000, in the village of Lerebir.
Struggle RecordIn 1943, he joined the ranks of the Second Barzan Revolution. On October 12 of the same year, he participated in the capture of the Kherazok police station. On August 19, 1945, by order of the Iraqi military tribunal, all his movable and immovable property was seized.
After the defeat of the Second Barzan Revolution, on October 11, 1945, he headed to Eastern Kurdistan. On March 31, 1946, he became a Peshmerga in the Barzan force affiliated with the army of the Republic of Kurdistan in Mahabad. On May 3 of the same year, he participated in the Battle of Milqareni. After the defeat of the Republic of Kurdistan, on March 3, 1947, he participated in the Battle of Nolos. He was among the Peshmerga who returned to the Shirwan and Mezuri region on April 19, 1947, through (Khwakurk and the Bazargir plain) via the territory of Northern Kurdistan.
After their return, General Mustafa Barzani held a meeting with his companions on May 6, 1947, in the village of Argosh and gave them the choice of staying or going to the Soviet Union. There, all his companions decided to continue and go to the Soviet Union. On May 23, 1947, he accompanied General Mustafa Barzani towards the Soviet Union and participated in the Battle of Qotur Valley and the Battle of Maku 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, 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 Kurdish language lessons daily for four hours by some of their companions who were literate.
After Jafar Bagirov's poor treatment of his companions, it was decided to move the military camp on August 29, 1948, from the Republic of Azerbaijan to the Charchuk community 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 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, 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 for them all to 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 the implementation of Article (11) based on the amended Law No. 19 of 1959, he and his companions were granted 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 by the ship Gruzia via the port of Basra in the south of the Republic of Iraq.
In 1961, he participated in the Aylul Revolution. In 1975, after the defeat of the Aylul Revolution , he headed to the Kingdom of Iran as a refugee. In 1979, he participated in the Gulan Revolution and was a Sarpal. In the Aylul and Gulan revolutions, he participated in the battles of Sari Akre, Sari Pers, Meriba, Shush and Sharmana, Bersiaf, Badlian, Nala, Zawita, Nehla, and Gali Rash. He was wounded in the Battle of Sari Akre.
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