Biography

Said Barzani was born in 1926 in the village of Rezani, belonging to the Gortu sub-district in the Mergasor district of Erbil province. His father, Wali Beg Said, was martyred on August 8, 1945, inside the Mergasor police station. He studied in the Soviet Union and in Year 1955 received his bachelor's degree in the Department of Agriculture at the Voronezh University and Politics in the Soviet Union. In 1975, after the collapse of the Aylul Revolution he went as a refugee to the Kingdom of Iran and settled in the city of Karaj. In 1991, he returned to Kurdistan and settled in Pirmam.

He knew the Kurdish, Arabic, Turkish, Persian, and Russian languages. He passed away on December 8, 2016, in Salahaddin and was buried in the Garki Jewi cemetery in the Barzan region.

Struggle Record

In 1945, he joined the ranks of the Second Barzan Revolution and was a Sargolleh (Captain) of the Peshmerga of the villages of Rezani and Dori, and participated in the battles. On August 19, 1945, by order of the Iraqi military tribunal, all his movable and immovable properties were seized.

After the collapse of the Second Barzan Revolution on October 11, 1945, he went to Eastern Kurdistan. On March 31, 1946, he became a Peshmerga in the Barzani force belonging to the army of the Republic of Kurdistan in Mahabad and was granted the rank of officer. He participated in the battles of Miandoab, Bukan, Margawar, and Targawar. On April 29, 1946, he participated in the battle of Qarawa in the Saqqez region, and on May 3, he participated in the battle of Milqarni. After the collapse of the Republic of Kurdistan, on February 23, 1947, he participated in the battle of Silwa in Eastern Kurdistan.

 On April 19, 1947, he decided that under the command of General Mustafa Barzani he would continue the resistance. He supervised a group in the village of Argosh. On May 23, 1947, he participated in the march towards the Soviet Union and was a group leader. On May 28, 1947, at the request of Mirhaj Ahmed, he participated in the meeting in the village of Jirmi. On June 8, 1947, by order of Mullah Mustafa Barzani he took his force to the surroundings of the village of Agh Dashi in Eastern Kurdistan. From June 9, 1947, to June 11, 1947, he participated in the battles of Gali Qotur and the Maku bridge.

 After great hardship and fatigue, on June 18, 1947, he crossed the Aras River, which is located on the border between Iran and the Soviet Union, and crossed into the Soviet Union.

After arriving in the Soviet Union, on June 19, 1947, along with all his companions, they were placed for forty days in an open-air compound surrounded by barbed wire in the city of Nakhchivan in the Republic of Azerbaijan. They were guarded by a group of soldiers and were treated like prisoners of war in terms of food, clothing, and movement. Later, by decision of the Soviet government, they were distributed across the regions of Aghdam, Lachin, Ayolakh, 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 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, he was transported by plane in groups and squads to Monyak Island in the middle of the Aral Sea. 

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 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 Vrevsky, so he 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. On April 16, 1959, along with his companions, he returned to Kurdistan by the ship Gruzia via the port of Basra in the south of the Republic of Iraq.

 In Year 1961, he participated in the Aylul Revolution and also participated in the battles of Pirs and Gali Zanta. In 1967, for three years, as a representative of Mullah Mustafa Barzani he supervised the Sidekan sub-district. In Year 1979, he participated in the Gulan Revolution and was the commander of the Sidekan force. On August 16, 1996, within the framework of the Golden Jubilee celebrations, due to his struggle and resistance in the Second Barzan Revolution, the Republic of Kurdistan, the march towards the Soviet Union, Aylul Revolution and Gulan Revolution by President Masoud Barzani he was awarded the Barzani the Immortal Medal. He was wounded once in Garbish.

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