Biography

Muhammad Amin Mirxan Suleiman Mergesori was born in 1917 in the Mergesor district of Erbil province. He was married and had two sons and a daughter. He knew the Kurdish and Russian languages. In 1945, after the defeat of the Second Barzan Revolution, he became a refugee in Eastern Kurdistan.

Struggle Record

In 1943, he joined the Second Barzan Revolution (1943-1945) and became a Peshmerga. He participated in the famous Battle of Meydan Morik and was one of the fighters of the Barzan force in the Republic of Kurdistan in Mahabad. He participated in the battles against the attacks of the Iranian army on the Republic.

On May 22, 1947, he accompanied General Mustafa Barzani towards the Soviet Union and participated in the Battle of the Kotol (Qotur) Valley 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, 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 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, 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 the 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 Jafar Bagirov's poor treatment of Barzani's companions, 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 on the collective farms (the 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. The committee's final decision was that they should all be gathered in the city of Vrevsky, so Muhammad Amin Mirxan 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. Muhammad Amin Mirxan returned to Kurdistan on April 16, 1959, with his companions on the ship Gruzia 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. He was martyred on March 18, 1962, in the battle of Mreba village, which belongs to the Sheikhan district of Mosul province.

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