Ahmed Jarjis Yunis Hassan, known as Ahmed Atrushi and Ahmed Hassan Halima, a teacher and politician, in the Year 1964 was appointed as the District Governor of Duhok by the Executive Bureau (Al-Maktab al-Tanfidhi) of the Revolutionary Command Council in Iraqi Kurdistan, in the year 1966 in 7th Congress was elected as a member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, in the same year he was appointed as a member of the Revolutionary Command Council in Iraqi Kurdistan, in the years (1974- 1975) he was appointed by the leadership of the Aylul Revolution as the District Governor of Akre in the Duhok province border.

Biography

Ahmed Jarjis Yunis Hassan was born in the Atrush area, which was part of the Mosul province at the time and is now Duhok, in 1958 he completed his high school education, in 1959 he joined the ranks of  Kurdistan Democratic Party and in 1959 he was appointed as a primary school teacher in the town of Amedi in the border of the former Mosul province and current Duhok education, in 1963 he was imprisoned by the Intelligence Agency of the Iraqi Army and later exiled to the town of Umm al-Rassas in the Basra province in southern Iraq. He was proficient in the Kurdish and Arabic languages.

Struggle Record‌

Ahmed Jarjis Yunis Hassan in the Year 1964 joined the ranks of the Peshmerga forces of the Aylul Revolution, in the Year 1964 he was made a branch member in the committee of the First Branch of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, in the Year 1964 he was a member of the conference committee of 6th Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the border of the First Branch, in the Year 1964 he was a representative of the 6th Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the town of Qaladze in the Sulaymaniyah province, in the Year 1964 he was a member of the twelve-person negotiating delegation of the 6th Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, which with the approval of the President Mustafa Barzani (1903- 1979) went to the Political Bureau faction for the purpose of their participation in the 6th Congress, but due to the insistence on the non-participation of the Political Bureau faction, the delegation did not succeed in its mission, in the Year 1964 he was a branch administrator in the committee of the First Branch of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, at the end of the Year 1964 he was appointed by the Executive Bureau (Al-Maktab al-Tanfidhi) of the Revolutionary Command Council in Iraqi Kurdistan as the District Governor of Duhok in the border of the former Mosul province and current Duhok, in 1966 in the town of Galala in the Erbil province by the representatives of 7th Congress was elected as a member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, in 1966 he was appointed as a member of the Revolutionary Command Council in Iraqi Kurdistan, on July 13, 1967 as a representative of the Kurdistan Democratic Party and the person in charge of the Third Branch committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party he attended the Fifth Congress of the Kurdistan Students Union in the village of Taymzawa in the Kirkuk province.

In the Year 1967 for the second time he was appointed by the Revolutionary Command Council in Iraqi Kurdistan as the District Governor of Duhok in the border of the former Mosul province and current Duhok, in 1968 for a short period he was made the person in charge of the Third Branch committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, in 1968 he left political work and moved away from the ranks of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, in 1970 he rejoined the ranks of Kurdistan Democratic Party again, in 1970 he became a representative of the 8th Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the village of Nawprdan in the Erbil province, in the years (1974- 1975) he was appointed by the leadership of the Aylul Revolution as the District Governor of Akre in the Duhok province border, in 1975 after the collapse of the Aylul Revolution he headed as a refugee for a short period to the Kingdom of Iran and later returned to southern Kurdistan, in 1977 he was returned to work and as a primary school teacher in the city of Duhok, on December 10, 1982 he passed away due to poisoning and was buried in the Shakhke cemetery in the city of Duhok.

Source:

1. Archive of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Encyclopedia Board.