Born in 1924 in the village of Selke, part of the Sherwan Mazin sub-district in the Mergasor district of Erbil province, he passed away in 1989 in the city of Karaj.
Struggle RecordOn May 23, 1947, he accompanied General Mustafa Barzani towards the Soviet Union and participated in the Battle of Qotur and the Battle of Maku Bridge, and after much hardship and fatigue, on June 18, 1947, he crossed the Aras River, which is located on the border between Iran and the Soviet Union, into the Soviet Union.
After arriving 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 compound surrounded by barbed wire, and were guarded by a group of soldiers, and were treated as 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. On December 10, 1947, they were transferred to a military camp 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 were trained for eight hours of military training daily under the supervision of the officers of the Republic of Azerbaijan. At the same time, they were taught Kurdish language lessons daily for four hours by some of their companions who were literate.
After the bad treatment of Jafar Bagirov towards his companions, it was decided to move the military camp on August 29, 1948, from the Republic of Azerbaijan to the Charchuk compound 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 among the collective villages of the Soviet Union and worked in the Kolkhoz farms (lands that people rented from the government and later returned the government's share).
After much effort and sending several letters by General Barzani to Stalin, a letter finally reaches Stalin in which Barzani describes the hardships of his companions, and he immediately decides to form a committee to investigate the Situation of Barzani's companions, and finally the committee's decision is that they should all be gathered in the city of Vrevitsk, so the aforementioned went to the city of Vrevitsk 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, and according to both the third and seventh articles and paragraph (a) of the tenth article and working with article (11) based on the amended Law No. 19 of the Year 1959, he and his companions were covered by a general amnesty.
In 1958, the Republic of Iraq was established under the presidency of Abdul Karim Qasim, and the aforementioned returned to Kurdistan on April 16, 1959, with his companions on the ship Grozia via the port of Basra in the south of the Republic of Iraq.
In the Year 1961, he participated in the Aylul Revolution and was a company commander. In 1975, after the Fall of the Aylul Revolution , he went to the Kingdom of Iran as a refugee. In the Year 1979, he participated in the Gulan Revolution. He passed away in 1989 in the city of Karaj.
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