Ziyab Dar Ziyab was born in 1909 in the village of Barzan, affiliated with the Barzan district in the Mergasor district of Erbil province. Before going to the Soviet Union, he was married, and his wife's name was Halima Miqdad Ismail. They had three sons and a daughter named Hussein (1937), Miqdad (1940), Khatun (1942), and Abdullah (1945). He studied in the Soviet Union and was able to obtain an institute degree. In the Soviet Union, he married for the second time to Galina Profisina, and they had a son and a daughter named Ali (1954) and Maryam (1958). After their return from the Soviet Union and the outbreak of the Aylul Revolution, in 1966 his family returned with his children to the Soviet Union. He was proficient in the Kurdish and Russian languages. Due to the poor weather conditions and polluted water in the Afak district of Diwaniya province, he passed away on December 11, 1975, and was buried there.
On July 31, 1983, during the Anfal operation of the Barzanis, his son, Hussein Ziyab (1937-1983), was disappeared by the Iraqi government in the Qushtapa complex.
Struggle RecordZiyab Dar Ziyab joined the ranks of the First Barzan Revolution in 1931. In 1931, he participated in the Battle of Barqi Beg. In 1943, he joined the ranks of the Second Barzan Revolution. In the same year, he participated in the capture of the police stations of Bile and Barzan.
On August 19, 1945, by order of the Iraqi military court, all his movable and immovable property was seized. On October 11 of the same year, after the collapse of the Second Barzan Revolution, he headed to 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, and participated in the battles of the Saqqez front in the Republic of Kurdistan.
On April 15, 1947, along with Sheikh Ahmed Barzani, he crossed the Gadar River, which is located on the international border between Iran and Iraq. On April 19, he decided to remain under the command of General Mustafa Barzani to continue the resistance. On May 23, after the large meeting in the village of Dre and the decision to go to the Soviet Union, he left with the force. On June 18 of the same year, he crossed the Aras River, which is located on the international border of Iran with the Soviet Union.
After their arrival 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 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, Ayolakh, and Kalbajar in the Republic of Azerbaijan.
In 1947, they were transferred to the city of Shusha. On March 13, 1949, along with Mullah Mustafa Barzani and Saeed Mullah Abdullah, they were transferred by plane to Chimbay on the Aral Sea. On September 1, 1951, he, along with Mullah Mustafa Barzani returned to Tashkent.
In 1958, the Republic of Iraq was established under the presidency of Abdul Karim Qasim. On April 16, 1959, he returned to Kurdistan with his companions via the port of Basra in the south of the Republic of Iraq.
He participated in the Aylul Revolution and participated in the Battle of Pirs. In 1975, after the collapse of the Aylul Revolution , he was forcibly relocated by the Iraqi government to southern Iraq and settled in the Afak district of Diwaniya province.
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