Biography

Hussein Berokhi was born in 1903 in the village of Berokh in North Kurdistan. Before going to the Soviet Union, he was married and his wife's name was Hawa Muhammad. He had three children named Suheila (1922), Ruqiya (1924), and Abdal (1925), where Abdal, along with his father, would be one of the companions of Barzani in the Soviet Union. He knew all three languages: Kurdish, Turkish, and Russian. In 1968, on the recommendation of Mullah Mustafa Barzani he was sent to the country of Iran for medical treatment, passed away there, and was buried in the Beshe pass.

Struggle Record

In 1943, he joined the ranks of the Second Barzan Revolution. On October 12, he participated in the capture of the Kherazok police station, and on October 20, he participated in the capture of the police stations of Zet and Shirwan Mazni. For this reason, on August 19, 1945, by order of the Iraqi military customary court, all his movable and immovable property was seized.

On October 11, 1945, and after the collapse of the Second Barzan Revolution, along with Mustafa Barzani and his companions, he crossed 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.

After the collapse of the Republic of Kurdistan in Mahabad and the return of Barzani from East Kurdistan to South Kurdistan, he was among those Peshmerga who returned to the Shirwan and Mezuri region on April 19, 1947 via (Khwakurk and the Bazargir plain) through the land of North Kurdistan.

After their return, General Mustafa Barzani held a meeting with his companions in the village of Argosh on May 6, 1947 and gave them the choice to stay or go towards the Soviet Union. There, all his companions decided to continue and go towards the Soviet Union. On May 23, 1947, he accompanied General Mustafa Barzani towards the Soviet Union and participated in the Battle of Qotur and the Battle of Maku Bridge. After much hardship and fatigue, on June 18, 1947, he crossed into the Soviet Union at the Aras River, which is located on the border between Iran and the Soviet Union.

After reaching the Soviet Union, on June 19, 1947, he and all his companions were placed in an open-air compound surrounded by barbed wire in the city of Nakhchivan in the Republic of Azerbaijan for forty days. 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. In December 10, 1947, they were transferred to a military camp on the Caspian Sea in Baku, the capital of the Republic of Azerbaijan, and in December 23 of the same year, they were given military uniforms and, under the supervision of officers of the Republic of Azerbaijan, were given eight hours of military training daily. At the same time, for four hours a day, they were taught Kurdish language lessons by some of their companions who were literate.

After the bad treatment of the companions by Jafar Baghirov, it was decided to move the military camp in August 29, 1948 from the Republic of Azerbaijan to the Charchuk community near Tashkent, the capital of the Republic of Uzbekistan, and they continued their military training there.

In March 1949, he and his companions 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 rented from the government and later gave back the government's share).

After much effort and the sending of several letters by General Barzani to Stalin, a letter finally reached Stalin in which Barzani describes the hardships of his companions, and he immediately decides to form a committee to investigate the situation of Barzani's companions. Eventually, the committee's decision is that they should all 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 the year 1959, he and his companions were covered by a general amnesty.

In the year 1958, the Republic of Iraq was established under the presidency of Abdul Karim Qasim. He returned to Kurdistan on April 16, 1959 with his companions by the ship Grozia via the port of Basra in the south of the Republic of Iraq. He participated in the Aylul Revolution and was a Head of Branch and participated in the battles.

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