Biography

Hussein Suleiman Malo, known as Hussein Bazi, was born in 1927 in the village of Bazi, affiliated with the Barzan sub-district in the Mergasor district of Erbil province. He studied in the Soviet Union and received a degree in agriculture. He knew Kurdish, Arabic, and Russian. On July 31, 1983, during the Anfal operation against the Barzanis, he was disappeared by the Iraqi government in the Qushtapa complex.

Struggle

In 1943, he joined the ranks of the Second Barzan Revolution and participated in the battles. On August 19, 1945, by order of the Iraqi military tribunal, all his movable and immovable property was confiscated. After the defeat of the Second Barzan Revolution in the same year, on October 11, he headed to Eastern Kurdistan.

 On March 31, 1946, he served as a Peshmerga in the Barzani force affiliated with the army of the Republic of Kurdistan in Mahabad. On April 29, 1946, he participated in the Battle of Saqqez and the battles of Qorveh, Hassan Qala, Dasht-i Sindus, Gilas, and Margavar. He was among the Peshmerga who returned to the Shirwan and Mazuri region through Northern Kurdistan via the route of (Khwakurk and the plain of Barazgir) on April 19, 1947.

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 go 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 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, 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 complex surrounded by barbed wire, guarded by a group of soldiers. They were treated like 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 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 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 poor treatment of his 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, 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 kolkhoz farms (lands that people rented from the government and later gave back the government's share).

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 ordered the formation of a committee to investigate the situation of Barzani's companions. Eventually, 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.

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 by applying 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 returned to Kurdistan with his companions via the ship Grozia through the port of Basra in the south of the Republic of Iraq. 

 In the Year 1961, he participated in the Aylul Revolution and was a Peshmerga. In 1970, he participated in the battles of Sari Akre and Pirsi. In 1975, after the defeat of the Aylul Revolution, he was displaced by the Iraqi government to southern Iraq.

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