Biography

The father of Dr. Said, who is known as the Lion of Barzan, participated in the First Barzan Revolution of 1932 and the Khalil Khoshawi movement of 1935. On September 15, 1935, in the Battle of Mount Govend in Northern Kurdistan, he was martyred along with a group of his comrades at the hands of the Turkish gendarmerie forces.

Dr. Said was born in 1930 in the village of Bedudi, affiliated with the Piran sub-district in the Mergasor district of Erbil province. On June 21, 1932, after the collapse of the First Barzan Revolution, he became a refugee in the Republic of Turkey with his family. On October 11, 1945, after the collapse of the Second Barzan Revolution, he became a refugee in Eastern Kurdistan and settled in the town of Oshnavieh. While in the Soviet Union, he married Bklal Ililna Novia; they had a son named Aziz Said who was born in 1958. He received a doctorate in contemporary history and was proficient in Kurdish, Turkish, Russian, Persian, and Arabic. 

Struggle Record

Said Ahmed Nadir participated in the Second Barzan Revolution in 1944 and participated in the Battle of Meydan Morik on September 5, 1945. On October 11, 1945, after the collapse of the Second Barzan Revolution, he became a refugee in 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 May 3, 1946, he participated in the Battle of Milqareni on the Saqqez front in Eastern Kurdistan.

He was among the Peshmerga who returned to the Shirwan and Mizuri region through the Khwakurk and Bazargir plain via the territory of Northern Kurdistan on April 19, 1947. After their return, General Mustafa Barzani held a meeting with his comrades on May 6, 1947, in the village of Argosh and gave them the choice of staying or going to the Soviet Union. There, all the comrades decided to continue and go to the Soviet Union. On May 23, 1947, he accompanied General Mustafa Barzani towards the Soviet Union and participated in the Battle of the 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 Soviet territory.

After arriving in the Soviet Union, on June 19, 1947, along with all his comrades, he was placed in the city of Nakhchivan in the Republic of Azerbaijan for forty days in an open-air complex 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 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, under the supervision of the officers of the Republic of Azerbaijan, they were given eight hours of military training daily and received officer ranks. At the same time, for four hours a day, they were taught the Kurdish language by some of their comrades who were literate..

After the mistreatment of the comrades by Jafar Bagirov, 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, along with his comrades, they were distributed in groups and squads by train to the collective villages of the Soviet Union, and they worked on the collective farms (kolkhozes) on the lands that people rented back from the government and then gave the government's share back..

After much effort and the sending of several letters by General Barzani to Stalin, a letter finally reached Stalin in which  Barzani described the hardships of his comrades, and he immediately decided to form a committee to investigate the situation of Barzani's comrades. Eventually, the committee's decision was that they should all be gathered in the city of Vrevsky, so he went to the city of Vrevsky in the Soviet Union in November 1951.. In 1954, at the request of General  Mustafa Barzani he went to Moscow to complete his university studies.

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 by applying the eleventh article based on the amended Law No. 19 of the Year 1959, he and his comrades were granted a general amnesty. On April 16, 1959, he returned to Kurdistan with his comrades by the ship Gruzia via the port of Basra in the south of the Republic of Iraq and became a Russian language translator at the Military College in Baghdad. On November 5, 1960, at the invitation of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, he accompanied Mustafa Barzani to the Soviet Union on the anniversary of the October Revolution, and in the Year 1965, he received his doctorate in contemporary history. In 1970, he returned to Baghdad and from (1971-1974) was appointed as a history professor at the University of Baghdad.

In 1973, due to the tense situation between the leadership of the Kurdistan Democratic Party and the Ba'ath Party, he returned to the ranks of the Peshmerga forces for the third time. In 1974, as a commander, he participated in the battles of Zozk, Sartiz, and the Omar Agha gorge in the border area of Erbil province. In 1975, after the collapse of the Aylul Revolution he went to the Kingdom of Iran as a refugee. In the Year 1979, at the 9th Congress of the Party he became a member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party was elected, and in the same year, he became the commander of the Barzan force. In the year 1987, he was one of the commanders of the Mergasor battle in the Erbil province border, and in the year 1988, as the commander of the Barzan force, he participated in the Khwakurk epic. In the year 1991, he participated actively in the uprising of Southern Kurdistan and was one of the planners of the plan to liberate the city of Kirkuk. From April 7 to 14, 1991, he was one of the commanders of the Kore epic battle, which led to the defeat of the Iraqi force's advance. In the year 1993, he was made a member of the High Social Committee of the Barzan region, and on August 16, 1996, because of his service in the Aylul Revolution، Gulan Revolution and the uprising of Southern Kurdistan and the stage of sovereignty, during the party's Golden Jubilee, he was awarded the Immortal Barzani Medal by President Masoud Barzani and on February 5, 1999, he passed away in Pirmam, and in the presence of Nechirvan Barzani the representative of President Masoud Barzani and Sheikh Muhammad Khalid Barzani and a significant number of his family and comrades, he was laid to rest in the cemetery of the village of Barzan.

Among his works:

  1. Life and Resistance - As History Records Sovereignty - 1997.
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  2. On the 40th day of the militant Dr. Saeed, Brayati Newspaper, organ of the Kurdistan Democratic Party - Unified, Issue 2799, Erbil, Wednesday, March 17, 1999 AD.
  3. Brayati, Dr. Saeed, that eagle Peshmerga who chose the path of resistance, Brayati Newspaper, organ of the Kurdistan Democratic Party - Unified, Issue 2772, Erbil, Monday, February 8, 1999 AD.
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  20. Sabri Chawshin Khano, Bedod in History, (Erbil - Rojhalat Printing House - 2018 AD).