Biography

Hussein Bakr Beg Hali was born in 1920 in the village of Bapshtian, affiliated with the Diana sub-district in the Soran district of Erbil province. Before going to the Soviet Union, he was married; his wife's name was Aisha Khan Sadiq Salih, and they had two daughters named Fakhriya Hussein, born in 1937, and Sara Hussein, born in 1940. Hussein Bakr Beg passed away in the Soviet Union in Year 1949.

Struggle Record

On October 11, 1945, after the collapse of the second Barzan revolution, he crossed with  Mustafa Barzani and his companions into East Kurdistan. After the establishment of the Republic of Kurdistan in Mahabad, on March 31, 1946, he defended the Republic within the framework of the Barzan force and participated in the battles of the Saqqez front.

After the collapse of the Republic of Kurdistan in Mahabad and the return of Barzani from East Kurdistan to South Kurdistan, he participated in the Battle of Naghadeh and the Battle of Oshnavieh in East Kurdistan. He was also among the Peshmerga who returned to the Shirwan and Mazuri region through the Khwakurk and Barazgir plain on April 19, 1947, via the territory of North 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 towards the Soviet Union. There, all the companions decided to continue and head towards the Soviet Union. On May 23, 1947, he accompanied  General Mustafa Barzani towards the Soviet Union and participated in the Battle of Gali Qotur and the Battle of the Maku Bridge. After much hardship and fatigue, on June 18, 1947, he crossed the Aras River, which lies 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, guarded by a group of soldiers, and 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 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 Kurdish language lessons for four hours daily 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 compound 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 (Kolkhozes) (lands that people rented from the government and later returned the government's share).  

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