Born Bijan Jandu Ali Year 1926 in the village of Hodar in East Kurdistan. He studied in the Soviet Union, married the Ukrainian lady Rosa Alexander there, and they had two daughters (Irka and Asia). He was able to obtain a bachelor's degree from Tashkent University - the Political Academy in the Soviet Union. He was a professor of the Russian language at the University of Baghdad and gave lectures at Al-Mustansiriya and Alexandria universities, as well as to Iraqi officers at the Military College in Baghdad. His wife, Rosa, was an employee. In the Year 1963, Rosa was constantly harassed by the Ba'athist regime on the charge of her husband accompanying General Mustafa Barzani and being a Peshmerga, which forced her to return to the Soviet Union. In the Year 1970, Bijan married for the second time to the lady Saadiya Hussein Karim, who was from Erbil. He returned to Iran in the Year 1974 and resided in Naqadeh, and Bijan obtained civil status and nationality identification for himself and his family. In his village, he worked in agriculture on the Agha's lands because he did not own agricultural land, and he continued in this until he was martyred.
Struggle PagesBijan accompanied General Mustafa Barzani on 3 June 1947 on his march to the Soviet Union, starting from the village of Smail Agha in East Kurdistan, and participated in the battles of that march. After great hardship and severe exhaustion, he crossed the Aras River on 18 June 1947, which is located on the border between Iran and the Soviet Union.
After their arrival in the Soviet Union, on 19 June 1947, he and all his comrades were detained in the city of Nakhchivan in the Republic of Azerbaijan for forty days in an open compound surrounded by barbed wire guarded by soldiers. They were treated as prisoners of war in terms of food, clothing, and transportation. By a decision of the Soviet government, they were later distributed to the regions of Aghdam, Lachin, Yevlakh, and Kalbajar in the Republic of Azerbaijan. On 10 December 1947, they were transferred to a camp on the Caspian Sea in the capital of the Azerbaijani Republic, Baku. On the 23rd of the same month, they received military uniforms and were receiving military training for eight hours daily under the supervision of officers from the Republic of Azerbaijan. At the same time, they were receiving lessons in learning the Kurdish language for four hours daily from some of their educated comrades.
After Jafar Bagirov's mistreatment of his comrades, Barzani decided to move his military gathering from Azerbaijan on 29 August 1948 to the Jarjok complex near the Uzbek capital, Tashkent, where they continued their military training.
In March 1949, he and his comrades were distributed in groups by train to cooperative villages in the Soviet Union and worked on Kolkhoz farms (land that people rented from the government and then paid a share to the government from it).
After great efforts and sending several letters from General Barzani to Stalin, Stalin finally received a letter in which Barzani spoke about the suffering of his comrades, and he immediately decided to form a committee to investigate the situation of Barzani's comrades. The committee's final decision was that they should be gathered in the city of Vrevsky, so he headed to the Soviet city of Vrevsky in November 1951.
In the Year 1958, the Republic of Iraq was established under the leadership of Abd al-Karim Qasim. He returned with his comrades on 16 April 1959 to Kurdistan aboard the ship Gruzia via the port of Basra in the south of the Republic of Iraq.
In the Year 1962, he participated in Aylul Revolution, and he held the position of Wing Commander. In the Year 1974, he held for several months the position of Commander of the Sixth Battalion in the Balak force after Mr. Asi Al-Sayyid Muhammad, and he participated in the battles of Zarkali and Kore Z. He also participated in an artillery course and was working in meteorology during Aylul Revolution, and he also participated in the battles of the Erbil Plain, Koya, Ranya, Qaladiza, as well as in the battles of the Badinan region.
In the Year 1979, he received a letter from Dr. Qassemlou asking him to join the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran due to the urgent need for him. Afterwards, he returned to the village of Hodar to meet his family. The Iranian government felt Bijan's arrival in Hodar. A battle broke out between the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran and the Islamic Republic of Iran, in which Bijan was martyred, and he was laid to rest in his village.
Sources:- Archive of the Encyclopedia Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.