Biography

Majid Mikail Haji was born in 1920 in the village of Bzhian, Shirwan Mazin sub-district, Mergasor district, Erbil province. He was married, passed away in 1969, and was buried in the cemetery of Bzhian village in the Mizuri region.

Struggle Record

In 1943, after Mullah Mustafa Barzani returned from Sulaymaniyah to the Barzan region and the Second Barzan Revolution (1943-1945) broke out, he joined the ranks of the revolutionary army and participated in the battles to capture the police stations in the Barzan region. In 1945, after the defeat of the revolution, he was displaced along with the Barzani fighters and families to Eastern Kurdistan (Iran). After the establishment of the Republic of Kurdistan in Mahabad at the beginning of 1946, he became a Peshmerga of the Republic in the Barzan force. After the fall of the Republic of Kurdistan in December 1946, he, along with the Barzan revolutionary army led by General Mustafa Barzani, returned to Southern Kurdistan after several battles and acts of bravery against the Imperial Iranian Army, passing through the Nazdardagh region at the Iran-Iraq-Turkey border triangle, and settled in the ranks of the army in the Mizuri tribal region.

 On May 22, 1947, he accompanied General Mustafa Barzani towards the Soviet Union and participated in the Battle of Geli Kotol (Qotur) and the Battle of 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 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, and treated as 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, they were taught Kurdish language lessons daily for four hours by some of their companions who were literate.

After the poor treatment of the Barzani 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, he and his companions were distributed in groups and squads by train among the collective villages of the Soviet Union and worked in the collective farms (Kolkhozes) (the lands that people rented from the government and later returned the government's share).

After much effort and sending several letters by General Barzani to Stalin, a letter finally reached Stalin in which Barzani described the hardships of his companions, and he immediately decided to form a committee to investigate the situation of the Barzani companions. Eventually, the committee's decision was for them all to be gathered in the city of Vrevsky, so Majid Mikail Haji went to the city of Vrevsky in the Soviet Union in November 1951.

 In 1958, the Republic of Iraq was established under the presidency of Abdul Karim Qasim, and Majid Mikail Haji returned to Kurdistan on April 16, 1959, with his companions by the ship Georgia via the port of Basra in the south of the Republic of Iraq.

In 1961, he joined the Peshmerga forces of the Aylul Revolution and became a Peshmerga and participated in its battles.

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