Born in the Year 1924 in the village of Arkosh, belonging to the Shirwan Mazin sub-district in the Mergasor district of Erbil Governorate. He studied in the Soviet Union, obtained an institute degree in the Soviet Union, and was appointed on April 24, 1975, at the handmade carpet factory in Sitakan, Erbil. He was fluent in three languages: Kurdish, Arabic, and Russian.
Struggle PagesJoined Jadir Aziz Hamid the ranks of the Second Revolution of Barzan in the Year 1943 after the outbreak of the revolution, and participated in all the battles. For this reason, on August 19, 1945, all his movable and immovable property was confiscated by order of the Military Court.
On October 11, 1945, and after the setback of the Aylul Revolution Second, he crossed to East Kurdistan with Mustafa Barzani and his comrades, and after the establishment of the Democratic Republic of Kurdistan in Mahabad on March 31, 1946, he defended the Republic within the framework of the Barzan force.
After the collapse of the Republic of Kurdistan in Mahabad and Barzani's return from East Kurdistan to South Kurdistan, he participated in the battles of Naghadeh and Oshnavieh in East Kurdistan, and was among his Peshmerga comrades as he returned on 19/4/1947 via (Xwakurk and the Barazgara plain) through the lands of North Kurdistan to the Shirwan and Mizuri regions.
After their return, General Mustafa Barzani held a meeting with his comrades in the village of Arkosh on 15/5/1947 and gave them the choice to stay or go to the Soviet Union. There, all his comrades decided to continue and head to the Soviet Union. On May 23, 1947, he accompanied General Mustafa Barzani to the Soviet Union, participated in the battles of Qotur and the Maku bridge, and after great hardship and severe exhaustion, he crossed the Aras River on June 18, 1947, which is located on the border between Iran and the Soviet Union.
After their arrival in the Soviet Union, on June 19, 1947, he and all his comrades were detained in the city of Nakhchivan in the Republic of Azerbaijan for forty days in an open complex surrounded by barbed wire guarded by soldiers. They were treated as prisoners of war in terms of food, clothing, and transportation, and by a decision of the Soviet government, they were later distributed to the regions of Aghdam, Lachin, Yevlakh, and Kalbajar in the Republic of Azerbaijan. On December 10, 1947, they were moved to a camp on the Caspian Sea in the capital of the Azerbaijani Republic, Baku, and on the 23rd of the same month, they received military uniforms, and they were receiving military training for eight hours a day under the supervision of officers from the Republic of Azerbaijan, and at the same time, they were receiving lessons in learning the Kurdish language for four hours a day by some of their educated comrades.
After Jafar Bagirov's mistreatment of his comrades, Barzani decided to move his military gathering from Azerbaijan on August 29, 1948, to the Jarjok complex near the Uzbek capital, Tashkent, where they continued their military training.
In March 1949, he and his comrades were distributed in groups by train to the cooperative villages in the Soviet Union and worked on the kolkhoz farms (the land that people used to rent from the government and then pay a share of it to the government).
After great efforts and sending several letters from General Barzani to Stalin, Stalin finally received a letter in which Barzani spoke about the suffering of his comrades, and he immediately decided to form a committee to investigate the Situation of Barzani's comrades, and the committee's decision was finally that they be gathered in the city of Vrevsky, so he headed in November 1951 to the Soviet city of Vrevsky.
After the July 14, 1958 revolution in Iraq, and the return of General Mustafa Barzani, on February 25, 1959, he and his comrades were included in the general amnesty according to Articles (3) and (7) and Paragraph (A) of Article (10) and the implementation of Article (11) under Law No. (19) as amended for the Year 1959.
In the Year 1958, the Republic of Iraq was established under the leadership of Abd al-Karim Qasim, and he returned with his comrades on April 16, 1959, to Kurdistan on the ship Gruzia via the port of Basra in the south of the Republic of Iraq.
In the Year 1961, he participated in the Aylul Revolution, and on July 31, 1983, he was disappeared as part of the Anfal operation of the Barzanis by the Iraqi government in the Harir complex.
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