Biography

Hakim Mam Omar was born in 1920 in the village of Hostan, affiliated with the Barzan district in the Mergasor sub-district of Erbil province. After the collapse of the first Barzan Revolution on June 21, 1932, he and his family were displaced to the Republic of Turkey. Later, he was handed over by the Republic of Turkey to the Kingdom of Iraq and transferred to southern Iraq. While in the Soviet Union, he married Sabriya Ahmed Bakr, and they had one son and two daughters named Rashid, born in 1953, Abdulaziz, born in 1955, and Gul, born in 1958. Hakim Mam Omar knew Kurdish, Arabic, and Russian. He passed away in September 1988 in the Zive complex in West Azerbaijan province and was buried in the city of Oshnavieh in Eastern Kurdistan.

Struggle Record 

In 1943, he joined the ranks of the Second Barzan Revolution and participated in the battles of Barzan, Mulla, Pires Mountain, and Vazhi. For this reason, on August 19, 1945, by order of the Iraqi military tribunal, all his movable and immovable property was seized.

After the collapse of the Second Barzan Revolution on October 11, 1945, 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 Mahabad and participated in the battle of Singan.

 After the collapse of the Republic of Kurdistan, he participated in the battle of Nalos on March 3, 1947, the battle of Gujar on March 13-14, and the battle of Qarna in the Khaneh region on March 24.

After the fall of the Republic of Kurdistan in Mahabad and the return of Barzani from Eastern Kurdistan to Southern Kurdistan, he was among the Peshmerga who returned to the Shirwan and Mazuri region on April 19, 1947, via (Khwakurk and the Bazargir plain) through 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 to stay or head toward the Soviet Union. There, all his companions decided to continue and head toward the Soviet Union. On May 23, 1947, he accompanied General Mustafa Barzani toward the Soviet Union and participated in the battle of the Qotur Valley and the battle of the 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 complex surrounded by barbed wire. They were guarded by a group of soldiers and were treated as 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 underwent eight hours of military training daily under the supervision of officers of the Republic of Azerbaijan. At the same time, they were taught the Kurdish language daily for four hours by some of their companions who were literate.

After the poor treatment of the 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, he and his companions were distributed in groups and squads by train to the collective villages of the Soviet Union, where they worked on collective farms (Kolkhozes) (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. He immediately ordered the formation of a committee to investigate the situation of Barzani's companions, and the committee's final decision was that they should all be gathered in the city of Vrevsky. Therefore, he went to the city of Vrevsky 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 in accordance with both the third and seventh articles and paragraph (A) of the tenth article, and by applying the eleventh article 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 and took part in the battles of Meriba, Barzan, and Pires Mountain. In 1976, after the collapse of the Aylul Revolution, he was deported by the Iraqi government to southern Iraq and settled in Diwaniya province. In 1979, he was transferred to the Qushtapa complex. In 1982, he went to the Islamic Republic of Iran as a refugee. In 1982, he participated in the Gulan Revolution and was a squad leader.

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