Biography

Jadir Jangir Jadir Born in 1924 in the village of Mirozi, belonging to the Shirwan Mazin sub-district in the Mergasor district of Erbil Governorate, he married in the Soviet Union. He was fluent in Kurdish, Arabic, Turkish, and Russian. He died in 1953 in the Soviet Union due to a traffic accident and was buried there. 

Struggle Pages

In 1943, he joined the ranks of the Second Revolution of Barzan. He participated in the battles of Nihili and the seizure of the Nihili artillery unit and police stations in the Barzan region. On August 19, 1945, all his movable and immovable property was confiscated by order of the Iraqi Military Court. On October 11, 1945, after the setback of the Barzan Revolution, he crossed with Mustafa Barzani and his companions into East Kurdistan. After the establishment of the 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. He was among his Peshmerga companions when he returned on 19/4/1947 via (Khwakurk and the Barazgara plain), crossing the lands of North Kurdistan to the Shirwan and Mazuri regions.
After their return, General Mustafa Barzani held a meeting with his companions 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 companions decided to continue and head to the Soviet Union. On May 23, 1947, he accompanied General Mustafa Barzani to the Soviet Union. He 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 companions were detained in the city of Nakhchivan in the Republic of Azerbaijan for forty days in an open compound surrounded by barbed wire guarded by soldiers. They were treated as prisoners of war in terms of food, clothing, and transportation. 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 transferred to a camp on the Caspian Sea in the capital of the Azerbaijani Republic, Baku. On the 23rd of the same month, they received military uniforms and were receiving military training for eight hours daily under the supervision of officers from the Republic of Azerbaijan. At the same time, they were receiving lessons in learning the Kurdish language for four hours daily from some of their educated companions.

After the mistreatment of his companions by Jafar Bagirov, Barzani decided to move his military assembly from Azerbaijan on August 29, 1948, to the Jarjuk complex near the Uzbek capital, Tashkent, where they continued their military training.

In March 1949, he and his companions were distributed in groups by train to collective villages in the Soviet Union and worked on Kolkhoz farms (land that people would rent from the government and then pay a share to the government from it).

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 companions, and he immediately decided to form a committee to investigate the situation of Barzani's companions. The committee's final decision was that they should be gathered in the city of Vrevsky, so he headed to the Soviet city of Vrevsky in November 1951.

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