Biography

Shekhomer Mar'an Hassan was born in 1920 in the village of Dezo in the Shirwan Mazn sub-district of Mergasor district, Erbil province. He was married and knew the Kurdish and Russian languages. In 1991, he went to the Islamic Republic of Iran as a refugee and passed away in the Zewe complex in the same year.

Struggle Record

General Mustafa Barzani held a meeting with his comrades on May 15, 1947, in the village of Argosh and gave them the choice to stay or go to the Soviet Union. There, all his 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 Qotur 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, he and all his comrades 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 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, they were given eight hours of military training daily. At the same time, for four hours a day, some of their comrades who were literate taught them the Kurdish language.

After the bad treatment of Jafar Baghirov towards Barzani's comrades, 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 comrades were distributed in groups and squads by train to 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 comrades. He immediately decided to form a committee to investigate the situation of Barzani's comrades, and the committee's decision was that they should all be gathered in the city of Vriviski, so he went to the city of Vriviski in the Soviet Union in November 1951.

After the July 14, 1958 revolution in Iraq and the return of General Mustafa Barzani, on February 25, 1959, according to both the third and seventh articles and paragraph (a) of the tenth article and working with article (11) based on the amended Law No. 19 of 1959, he and his comrades were granted a general amnesty. 

In 1958, the Republic of Iraq was established under the presidency of Abdul Karim Qasim. On April 16, 1959, he and his comrades returned to Kurdistan by the ship Grozia via the port of Basra in the south of the Republic of Iraq.  

 He participated in the Aylul Revolution and took part in the battles.

Sources:

1- Abdulrahman Malla Habib Abubakr, The Barzan Tribe between 1931 - 1991, First Edition, (Erbil - Ministry of Culture Press - 2001).

2- Karwan Muhammad Majid, The Barzanis from Mahabad to the Soviet, First Edition, (Sulaymaniyah - Paywand Press - 2011).

3- In the memoirs of Commander Martyr Haso Mirxan Zhazhoki, 62 Days with Barzani, The Barzanis' Journey to the Soviet Union, First Edition (Erbil - Culture Press - 1997).

4- Masoud Barzani, Barzani and the Kurdish Liberation Movement 1931 - 1958, (Duhok - Khabat Press - 1998).

5- Archive of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Encyclopedia Board.