Biography

Ibrahim Shekho Ibrahim was born in 1930 in the village of Shanadar, affiliated with the Goretu sub-district in the Mergasor district of Erbil province. On September 30, 1945, his father, Mela Shekho, was martyred by Jash forces on the road between Pirs Mountain and the Birekepra sub-district in Erbil province. In the Soviet Union, he started a married life with Palina. He studied there and was admitted to Tashkent University on February 15, 1954, and was able to obtain a diploma on March 29, 1959. From June 12, 1963, to December 20, 1963, Palina and her one child were imprisoned in Erbil by the government of Iraq on the charge that her husband, along with Mela Mustafa Barzani was a Peshmerga, and was then settled in the Seydawa neighborhood and was under surveillance, and later returned to Russia. Ibrahim Shekho Ibrahim passed away in 1982 in Erbil.

Struggle Record

 On May 23, 1947, he accompanied General Mustafa Barzani towards the Soviet Union and participated in the Battle of Qatur and the Battle of the 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 their arrival in the Soviet Union, on June 19, 1947, along with all his companions, he was placed in the city of Nakhchivan in the Republic of Azerbaijan for forty days in an open-air compound surrounded by barbed wire, and was guarded by a group of soldiers, and was treated like a prisoner of war in terms of food, clothing, and movement. Later, by the decision of the Soviet Union, 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 the officers of the Republic of Azerbaijan, were given eight hours of military training daily. At the same time, for four hours daily, they were taught lessons in learning the Kurdish language 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 on the collective farms (Kolkhoz) (lands that people rented from the government and later gave a share to the government).

After much effort and sending several letters by General Barzani to Stalin, finally a letter 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, and finally the committee's decision was that they should all be gathered in the city of Vrevitsky, so he went to the city of Vrevitsky 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 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 via the port of Basra in the south of the Republic of Iraq on the ship Grozia. In Year 1961, he participated in the Aylul Revolution and was a teacher. He passed away in 1982 in Erbil.

Sources:

  1. Archive of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Encyclopedia Board.

  2. Hamid Gardi, Summary of History, First Edition, (Erbil - Aras Printing and Publishing House - Ministry of Education Press - 2004).
  3. In the memoir of the martyr commander Haso Mirxan Zhazhoki, 62 Days with Barzani, The Barzanis' Journey to the Soviet Union, First Edition (Erbil - Enlightenment Press - 1997)..
  4. Masoud Barzani, Barzani and the Kurdish Liberation Movement 1931-1958, (Duhok - Khabat Press - 1998).
  5. Encyclopedia Board Archive, Ibrahim Shekho Ibrahim Shekho form, dated November 1, 2018 - Pirmam.
  6. Text of the General Amnesty Committee decision to restore the reputation of the martyrs of the Barzan revolution, Rizgari Magazine, Issue 3, 2, Al-Rabita Press, Baghdad, April 1, 1959.