Biography

Ibrahim Mirali Salim was born in 1927 in the village of Korke, affiliated with the Goreto sub-district in the Mergasor district of Erbil province, and passed away in 1996 in the Takestan sub-district of Qazvin province in the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Struggle Record

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 is located on the border between Iran and the Soviet Union, and crossed into the Soviet Union.

After arriving in the Soviet Union, on June 19, 1947, along with all his comrades, they 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, Ayolakh, 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, 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, some of their comrades who were literate taught them lessons in learning the Kurdish language.

After the bad treatment of the comrades 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, along with his comrades, they were distributed in groups and squads by train to 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, a letter finally reached Stalin in which Barzani describes the hardships of his comrades, and he immediately decides to form a committee to investigate the situation of Barzani's comrades. 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 1959, he and his comrades were covered by the general amnesty.

In 1958, the Republic of Iraq was established under the presidency of Abdul Karim Qasim. Ibrahim Mirali returned to Kurdistan on April 16, 1959, with his comrades via the Grozia ship through the port of Basra in the south of the Republic of Iraq. 

In the Year 1965, he participated in the Aylul Revolution and in 1975, after the collapse of the Aylul Revolution, he went to the country of Iran as a refugee. In the Year 1985, he participated in the Gulan Revolution. He passed away in 1996 in the Takestan sub-district of Qazvin province in the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Sources:
  1. Archive of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Encyclopedia Committee.
  2. Hamid Gardi, Summary of History, First Edition, (Erbil - Aras Printing and Publishing House - Ministry of Education Press - 2004).
  3. From the memoirs of the Martyr Commander Haso Mirxan Zhazhoki, 62 Days with Barzani, The Barzanis' Journey to the Soviet Union, First Edition (Erbil - Roshinbiri Press - 1997).
  4. Masoud Barzani, Barzani and the Kurdish Liberation Movement 1931-1958, (Duhok - Khabat Press - 1998).
  5. Encyclopedia Committee Archive, Ibrahim Mirali Salim form, dated November 1, 2018 - Pirmam.
  6. Text of the General Amnesty Committee decision to restore the reputation of the martyrs of the Barzan revolution, Rizgari Magazine, Issue 3, 2, Al-Rabita Press, Baghdad, April 1, 1959.