Biography

Hussein Jarjis Saeed was born in 1890 in the village of Pendro, affiliated with the Shirwan Mazin sub-district in the Mergasor district of Erbil province. After the failure of the first Barzan revolution, when Sheikh Ahmed Barzani and a large number of Barzani families took refuge in North Kurdistan, he and his family were displaced to the Republic of Turkey on June 21, 1932. Later, he was handed over by the Republic of Turkey to the Kingdom of Iraq and transferred to southern Iraq. On March 31, 1946, he was a Peshmerga in the Barzani force affiliated with the army of the Republic of Kurdistan, along with two of his sons named Abdullah Hussein and Shino Hussein. Before going to the Soviet Union, he was married, and his wife's name was Maryam Salih. They had four sons and a daughter named Abdullah Hussein (1923), Khaja Hussein (1929), Nargiz Hussein (1929), Lashkari Hussein (1931), and Jarjis Hussein (1937). After he and Sheikh Ahmed Barzani were at the Gader River on April 15, 1947, and were captured at the Diana wire, each of his sons, Khaja Hussein, was transferred to Mosul prison, and Shino Hussein was transferred to Kirkuk prison. Shino Hussein was martyred in Kirkuk prison. He was proficient in both Russian and Kurdish languages. He passed away in 1964 on the date of Bada Bala in the village of Qumri in Dohuk province and was buried there.

Struggle Record

In the years (1907-1908), he participated in the revolution against the Ottomans. In 1925, he participated in the Sheikh Said of Piran revolution. In the years (1927-1931), he joined the ranks of the Ararat revolution. In 1932, he joined the ranks of the first Barzan revolution and participated in its battles.

 On July 28, 1943, he joined the ranks of the Second Barzan Revolution. On October 12, he participated in the capture of the Khirazok police station, and on October 20, he participated in the capture of the police stations of Zet, Chami, and Shirwan Mazin. On November 10 of the same year, he participated in the capture of the Mazne police station and participated in the Kanyarash battle. He was appointed by the immortal Barzani as the commander of the Khalan and Qishla Jisr Biaf sector.

Due to his participation in the seizure of police stations, on August 19, 1945, by order of the Iraqi military tribunal, all his movable and immovable property and assets were seized.

On October 11, 1945, after the failure of the Second Barzan Revolution, along with  Mustafa Barzani and his companions, they crossed into East Kurdistan. After the establishment of the Republic of Kurdistan in Mahabad, on March 31, 1946, within the framework of the Barzani force, he defended the Republic, participated in the battles of the Saqqez front, and was wounded in the village of Qalat.

After the fall of the Republic of Kurdistan in Mahabad and the return of Barzani from East Kurdistan to South Kurdistan, he participated in the battle of Naqadeh and the battle of Oshnavieh in East Kurdistan. He was also among the Peshmerga who returned to the Shirwan and Mizuri region through the territory of North Kurdistan on April 19, 1947, via (Khwakurk and the Barazgir plain).

After their return,  General Mustafa Barzani held a meeting with his companions on May 6, 1947, in the village of Argosh 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, he accompanied  General Mustafa Barzani towards the Soviet Union and participated in the battle of the Qotur Valley and the battle of the Maku Bridge. 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, guarded by a group of soldiers, and treated as prisoners of war in terms of food, clothing, and movement. Later, by decision of the Soviet government, they were distributed among the regions of Aghdam, Lachin, Ayulakh, 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, under the supervision of officers of the Republic of Azerbaijan, were given eight hours of military training daily. At the same time, for four hours a day, they were taught the Kurdish language by some of their companions who were literate.

After the poor treatment of his companions by Jafar Bagirov, it was decided to move the military camp on August 29, 1948, from the Republic of Azerbaijan to the Charchuk community 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 on the collective farms (the lands that people rented from the government and later gave the government's share back).

After much effort and sending several letters by General Barzani to Stalin, a letter finally reached Stalin in which Barzani described the hardships of his companions, and he immediately ordered the formation of a committee to investigate the situation of Barzani's companions. Eventually, the committee's decision was that they should all be gathered in the city of Vriviski, so he 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 both the third and seventh articles and paragraph (A) of the tenth article, and by applying the eleventh article based on the amended Law No. 19 of 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; he returned to Kurdistan on April 16, 1959, with his comrades via the ship Grozia through the port of Basra in the south of the Republic of Iraq. 

In the Year 1961, he participated in the Aylul Revolution and became a Head of Branch, participated in the battles, and upon the order of Mustafa Barzani he was sent to the revolution's base in Qumri, was made responsible for the revolution's hospital, and was entrusted with the task of caring for and treating the wounded Peshmerga.

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