Biography

Born in 1918 in the village of Kani Lanj, affiliated with the Gortu sub-district in the Mergasor district of Erbil province. He married Maria Vasilvna in the Soviet Union and they had a son and a daughter named Yunus Uzair (1954) and Tania Uzair (1959). He passed away in 1982 in the village of Hayat.

Struggle Record

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 to the Soviet Union and participated in the Battle of Qotur (Kotol) and the Battle of 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 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. 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, 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 the 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 companions who were literate taught them the Kurdish language..

  After the poor treatment of his 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, he and his companions were distributed in groups and squads by train to the collective villages of the Soviet Union and worked on the Kolkhoz farms (lands that people took back from the government and later gave a share to the government).

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. He immediately ordered the formation of a committee to investigate the situation of Barzani's companions, and the committee's final decision was that they should all be gathered in the city of Vrevsky. Therefore, Uzair Aziz Yunus went to the city of Vrevsky in the Soviet Union in November 1951..

In 1958, the Republic of Iraq was established under the leadership of Abdul Karim Qasim, so Uzair Aziz 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.. In the Year 1962, he participated in the Aylul Revolution and took part in the battles.

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