Biography

Khudida Hassan was born in 1927 in the village of Sulki in the Targawar plain of East Kurdistan. After going to the Soviet Union, he married Pakiza Kuritun Ismail. His family was from the Tatar nation of the Crimean Peninsula. After their return from the Soviet Union and the outbreak of the Aylul Revolution, Pakiza was detained by the Ba'ath regime in Erbil from June 12, 1963, to December 20, 1963, along with her three children, on the charge that her husband was a companion of Mustafa Barzani and was a Peshmerga. She was imprisoned and later resided in the Saydawa neighborhood and subsequently in the Iskan neighborhood, where she remained under surveillance. Khudida Hassan was proficient in Kurdish and Russian languages and passed away on December 26, 1991.

Struggle Record

He was among the Peshmerga who returned to the Shirwan and Mizuri region through the soil of North Kurdistan on April 19, 1947, via (Khwakurk and the Bazargir plain).

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 his 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 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, into the Soviet Union.

After arriving in 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. 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 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 his companions by Jafar Bagirov, it was decided to move the military camp from the Republic of Azerbaijan on August 29, 1948, 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 among the collective villages of the Soviet Union and worked on the kolkhoz farms (lands that people rented from the government and later gave a share back to the government). In the Soviet Union, he was in solitary confinement for several months and was tortured.

He returned to Vriviski in November 1951. Khudida, along with two other companions, went to Moscow as representatives of the immortal Barzani to discuss the education of his companions in the Soviet Union.

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 via a trip to Georgia through the port of Basra in the south of the Republic of Iraq, and participated in the Aylul Revolution and was the administrative head of the First Military Depot. In 1973, he went to the Kingdom of Iran and returned to South Kurdistan in 1975.

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