His father is Dr. Said, who was known as the Lion of Barzan, participated in the first Barzan revolution in 1932 and the Khalil Khoshewi movement in 1935, and on September 15, 1935, in the mountain battle of Govend in North Kurdistan, he was martyred by the forces of the Turkish Gendarmerie along with a group of his companions.
Dr. Said was born in 1930 in the village of Bedudi, which belongs to the Pirane sub-district in the Mergasor district of Erbil province. On June 21, 1932, after the defeat of the first Barzan revolution, he migrated with his family to the Republic of Turkey. On October 11, 1945, after the defeat of the second Barzan revolution, he migrated to East Kurdistan and settled in the town of Shino. He married Biklal Ililna Novya in the Soviet Union. They had a son named Aziz Said who was born in 1958. He received his doctorate in contemporary history. He was proficient in Kurdish, Turkish, Russian, Persian, and Arabic languages.
Work HistorySaid Ahmed Nadir participated in the second Barzan revolution in 1944 and participated in the Battle of Meydan Morik on September 5, 1945. On October 11, 1945, after the defeat of the second Barzan revolution, he migrated to East Kurdistan. On March 31, 1946, he served as a Peshmerga in the Barzani force affiliated with the army of the Republic of Kurdistan in Mahabad. On May 3, 1946, he participated in the Battle of Mil Qareni on the Saqiz front in East Kurdistan.
He was among those Peshmerga who, on April 19, 1947, returned through the Xwakurk road and the Beraz Girve plain via the land of North Kurdistan to the Sherwan and Mizuri region. After their return, General Mustafa Barzani held a meeting with his companions on May 6, 1947, in the village of Ergushe 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 23, 1947, with General Mustafa Barzani he headed towards the Soviet Union and participated in the Battle of Geli Qitur and the Battle of Mako Bridge, and after great hardship and fatigue, on June 18, 1947, they crossed the Aras River, which lies on the border between Iran and the Soviet Union, into Soviet territory.
After their arrival in the Soviet Union, on June 19, 1947, along with all his companions, they were held for forty days in the city of Nakhchivan in the Republic of Azerbaijan in a Serawela complex that was surrounded by barbed wire and guarded by a group of soldiers, and they were treated as prisoners of war in terms of food, clothing, and movement. Later, by the decision of the Soviet government, they were distributed to the Agdam, Lachin, Ayulax, and Kalbajar regions in the Republic of Azerbaijan. On December 10, 1947, they were moved to a military base 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 and received officer ranks. At the same time, they were given Kurdish language lessons for up to four hours daily by some of their companions who were literate.
After the poor treatment by Jafar Baghirov towards his companions, it was decided to move them from the military camp on August 29, 1948, in the Republic of Azerbaijan to the Chirchuk complex near Tashkent, the capital of the Republic of Uzbekistan, where they continued their military training.
In March 1949, along with his companions, they were distributed in groups and squads by train to the villages of the Soviet Union and worked on Kolkhoz farms, which were lands that people rented from the government and then gave the government's share.
After much effort and the sending of several letters by General Barzani to Stalin, finally a letter reached Stalin in which Barzani described the hardships of his companions, and he immediately decided to form a committee to investigate the situation of Barzani's companions, and finally the committee's decision was that they should all be gathered in the city of Virivsky. For that reason, he went to the city of Virivsky in the Soviet Union in November 1951. In 1954, at the request of General Mustafa Barzani he headed to the city of Moscow to complete his university studies.
After the July 14, 1958 revolution in Iraq and the return of General Mustafa Barzani, on February 25, 1959, and according to both the third and seventh articles and paragraph (A) of the tenth article and the implementation of article 11 based on the amended law number 19 of 1959, he and his companions were granted a general amnesty, and he returned to Kurdistan with his companions on April 16, 1959, on the ship Grozya via the port of Basra in the south of the Republic of Iraq, and he became a Russian language translator at the Military College in Baghdad. On November 5, 1960, at the invitation of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union on the anniversary of the October Revolution, he was in the Soviet Union with Mustafa Barzani and in the Year 1965 he received his doctorate in contemporary history. In 1970, he returned to the city of Baghdad and from (1971 - 1974) he was appointed as a history professor at the University of Baghdad.
In the year 1973, due to the tense situation between the leadership of the Kurdistan Democratic Party and the Ba'ath Party, he joined the ranks of the Peshmerga forces for the third time, and in 1974, as a commander, he participated in the battles of Zozik, Sertiz, and Geruya Omer Axa on the border of Erbil province. In 1975, after the defeat of the September Revolution, he went as a refugee to the Kingdom of Iran. In 1979, at the ninth congress of the KDP, he was elected as a Member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, and in the same year, he became the commander of the Barzan force. In 1987, he was one of the commanders of the battle of Mergesor on the border of Erbil province. In 1988, as the commander of the Barzan force, he participated in the epic of Xwakurk. In 1991, he participated actively in the uprising of South Kurdistan and was one of the planners for the liberation of the city of Kirkuk. From April 7 to 14, 1991, he was the commander of the battle of the epic of Kore, which led to the defeat of the advances of the Iraqi forces. In 1993, he became a member of the high committee of the Barzan district association. On August 16, 1996, due to his service in the September Revolution, the May Revolution, the uprising of South Kurdistan, and the stage of governance, on the 50th golden anniversary of the KDP, by President Masoud Barzani he received the Immortal Barzani medal. On February 5, 1999, he passed away in Pirmam and with the presence of Nechirvan Barzani Delegate of President Masoud Barzani and Sheikh Mohammed Khalid Barzani and a significant number of his relatives and friends, he was laid to rest in the cemetery of Barzan village.
His works:Life and resistance - as history shows governance 1997.
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