Biography

Hussein Khal Mala Haji Ibrahim was born in 1903 in the village of Babke, affiliated with the Piran sub-district in the Mergasor district of Erbil province. He studied in the Soviet Union and received a degree in agriculture. He married twice while in the Soviet Union; his first wife was named Natasha, and his second wife was named Ala. They had three daughters, and he lived and passed away in Russia. Hussein Khal was appointed as an employee in the Mergasor Agriculture Department in 1959. He was proficient in both Kurdish and Russian languages. He passed away in 1981 in the village of Hishmawa and was buried in the Mala Bask cemetery.

Struggle History

In 1932, he joined the ranks of the First Barzan Revolution and on April 3 of the same year, he participated in the Battle of Meydandari in Dolavaz. After the failure of the First Barzan Revolution, on June 21, 1932, he fled with his family to the Republic of Turkey, then he became a rebel and hid in the mountains of Kurdistan. Later, he and his brother, named Saeed Khal, who was two years older than him, were arrested by the government of Iraq and imprisoned in the city of Mosul. After several years, he was released on bail by Suleiman Beg Dargalayi and taken to Rawandiz.

 In 1943, he joined the ranks of the Second Barzan Revolution. In the same year, on October 2, he participated in the capture of the Shanadar police station, on October 12, he participated in the capture of the Kherazok police station, and on November 6, he participated in the capture of the Goratu police station.

 On August 19, 1945, by order of the Iraqi military tribunal, all his movable and immovable property was seized. On October 11, after the failure of the Second Barzan Revolution, he headed to Eastern Kurdistan.

 On March 31, 1946, he became a Peshmerga in the Barzan force affiliated with the army of the Republic of Kurdistan in Mahabad. He participated in the battles of the Saqqez front in the Republic of Kurdistan.

 After the failure of the Republic of Kurdistan, on March 3, 1947, he participated in the battles of Nelos, Qalatan, and Margawar. He was among the Peshmerga who returned to the Shirwan and Mazuri region on April 19, 1947, through (Khwakurk and the Bazargar plain) via the territory of Northern Kurdistan.

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 of staying or heading towards the Soviet Union. There, all his companions decided to continue and head towards the Soviet Union. On May 23, 1947, he accompanied General Mustafa Barzani towards the Soviet Union and participated in the Battle of Qotur Valley and the Battle of 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, he and all his companions 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 like 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 moved 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 mistreatment of the 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, he and his companions were distributed in groups and squads by train among the collective villages of the Soviet Union and worked on collective farms (Kolkhozes) (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, and in accordance with both the third and seventh articles and paragraph (A) of the tenth article, and working with the eleventh article, based on the amended Law No. 19 of 1959, he and his companions were covered by the general amnesty.

In 1958, the Republic of Iraq was established under the presidency of Abdul Karim Qasim. On April 16, 1959, he and his companions returned to Kurdistan by the ship Grozia via the port of Basra in the south of the Republic of Iraq. 

In 1961, he participated in the Aylul Revolution and was a Sergeant Major. On the night of June 14-15, 1963, he participated in the Battle of Sari Akre, and on August 6, he participated in the Battle of Rezani. In 1975, after the failure of the Aylul Revolution, he went to Iran as a refugee.

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