Biography

Ebdulrehman Elî Yûnis was born in 1920 in the village of Zewe in the Barzan district, affiliated with the Mergasor district of Erbil province, after the collapse of the September Revolution, he was exiled to southern Iraq and lived there, he passed away in 1977 in southern Iraq, and he spoke both Kurdish and Russian.

Work History

Ebdulrehman Elî Yûnis was born in 1920 in the village of Zewe in the Barzan district, affiliated with the Mergasor district of Erbil province. On May 23, 1947, he went to the Soviet Union with General Mustafa Barzani and participated in the Battle of Qitur Valley and the Battle of Mako Bridge, and after many hardships and difficulties, on June 18, 1947, he crossed the Aras River on the border of Iran and the Soviet Union into the Soviet Union.

After they reached the Soviet Union, on June 19, 1947, he and all his comrades were placed in a closed camp in the city of Nakhchivan in the Republic of Azerbaijan, which was surrounded by barbed wire for forty days, guarded by a group of soldiers, and treated like prisoners of war in terms of food, clothing, and transportation. Later, by the decision of the Soviet state, they were distributed in Azerbaijan in the regions of Aghdam, Lachin, Ayulakh, and Kalbajar. On December 10, 1947, they were transferred 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 underwent 8 hours of daily military training under the supervision of officers of the Republic of Azerbaijan. At the same time, they received four hours of Kurdish language lessons daily from some of their educated comrades.

After the bad treatment of Jafar Bagirov towards his comrades, it was decided on August 29, 1948, to move the military camp from the Republic of Azerbaijan to the Chirchuk community near Tashkent, the capital of the Republic of Uzbekistan, and they continued their military training there.

In March 1949, he and his comrades were distributed in groups by train to the villages of the Soviet Union and worked on collective farm fields (lands that people had received from the state and then gave a share to the government).

After much effort and sending several letters from General Barzani to Stalin, finally a letter reached Stalin in which Barzani described the pain and suffering of his comrades, and he immediately ordered the formation of a committee to investigate the situation of Barzani's comrades, and in the end, the committee's decision was to gather them all in the city of Vriviski, for this reason, the aforementioned went to the city of Vriviski in the Soviet Union in November 1951.

After the July 14, 1958 revolution in Iraq and the return of General Mustafa Barzani, on February 25, 1959, according to articles 3 and 7, paragraph (a) of article 10, and article 11 of the 1959 amendment law, a general amnesty was granted to him and his comrades.

In 1958, the Republic of Iraq was established under the presidency of Abd al-Karim Qasim, and on April 16, 1959, the aforementioned returned to Kurdistan with his comrades via the ship Gruzia through the port of Basra in the south of the Republic of Iraq.

In 1963, he participated in the September Revolution and participated in battles, after the defeat of the September Revolution he was transferred by the Iraqi government to southern Iraq, and he passed away in 1977 in southern Iraq.

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