Biography 

Mala Ali Mala Abdulrahman, known as (Mala Ali Zhazhuki), was born in 1898 in the village of Zhazhuk, affiliated with the Goratu sub-district in the Mergasor district of Erbil province. Before going to the Soviet Union, he was married, and his wife, named Aisha Salim, had one son and one daughter named Hamin Mala (1926) and Khidir Mala (1926). In the Soviet Union, he received a degree in the agriculture department. He had knowledge of the Kurdish, Arabic, and Russian languages. He passed away in 1978 in Baghdad.

Struggle History

In 1930, he joined the ranks of the First Barzan Revolution, and on April 3, 1932, he participated in the battle of Meydandari Dola Vazhi. On August 19, 1945, by order of the Iraqi military tribunal, all his movable and immovable property was seized. After the defeat of the Second Barzan Revolution, on October 11, 1945, he headed to Eastern Kurdistan. On March 31, 1946, he served as a Peshmerga in the Barzan force affiliated with the army of the Republic of Kurdistan in Mahabad. On April 29, 1946, he participated in the battle of Qarawa in the Saqqez region (Eastern Kurdistan) and was wounded in this battle. On April 15, 1947, his family, along with Sheikh Ahmed Barzani, crossed the Gader River, which is located on the international border between the Kingdom of Iran and the Kingdom of Iraq, and were detained in Simi Diana for several months.

He was also among the Peshmerga who returned to the Shirwan and Mizuri region through the Khwakurk road and the Barazgir plain via the territory of Northern Kurdistan 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 22, 1947, he accompanied General Mustafa Barzani toward the Soviet Union and participated in the battle of Gali Kotol (Qotur) and the battle of the Maku bridge, where he was a squad leader in the battles. 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, toward 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 compound surrounded by barbed wire, guarded by a group of soldiers, and 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 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, they were taught Kurdish language lessons by some of their companions who were literate..

After the poor treatment of the companions 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 companions, they were distributed in groups and squads by train among the collective villages of the Soviet Union and worked in the Kolkhoz fields (lands that people rented from the government and later gave the government's share back)..

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 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 Vrevitski; therefore, Mala Ali Mala Abdulrahman went to the city of Vrevitski in the Soviet Union in November 1951..

In 1958, the Republic of Iraq was established under the presidency of Abdul Karim Qasim. Mala Ali Mala Abdulrahman 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.

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