Biography

Jalal Amin Mahmud Ali, known as Jalal Amin Beg Mirediyi, was born in the year 1911 in the city of Sulaymaniyah, his lineage goes back to the family of the Baban princes, he studied in the Hujra of Khatun Mela Fatima and Khwaja Effendi in the city of Sulaymaniyah, in the year 1938 he graduated from the Military College in the city of Baghdad with the rank of Second Lieutenant, in the year 1941 he completed the automotive mechanics department of the transport corps in the Iraqi Royal Army, in the year 1942 he completed the artillery department in the Iraqi Royal Army, in the year 1975 after the collapse of Aylul Revolution He first headed to the country of Iran, then returned to Southern Kurdistan. He passed away on June 28, 2004 in the city of Sulaymaniyah and was buried in the Sheikh Abdulkarim Kase u Keuchk cemetery, he was proficient in the Kurdish, Arabic, Turkish, English and Persian languages.

Struggle record

 In the year 1939 during the exile of Mustafa Barzani (1903-1979) he had a friendship with him in the city of Sulaymaniyah, in the year 1939 he was one of the founders of the Hiwa Party of Kurdistan, in the year 1943 he was one of the aides to President Mustafa Barzani for leaving the city of Sulaymaniyah and heading to Eastern Kurdistan towards the Barzan region for the purpose of launching the Second Barzan Revolution, on June 4, 1944 he joined the ranks of the Second Barzan Revolution, in the year 1945 after the negotiations of the Freedom Committee and the government of the Kingdom of Iraq with a part of the revolutionary officers they surrendered themselves but were imprisoned in the central prison of Baghdad and later with Muhammad Mahmud Muhammad (1922-1947) known as Muhammad Mahmud Qudsi he fled towards the liberated areas.

 In the year 1945 for the second time he joined the ranks of the Second Barzan Revolution force, on October 11, 1945 after the heavy bombardment of the Barzan region by the Air Force of the United Kingdom and the collapse of the Second Barzan Revolution with all the revolutionaries led by Mustafa Barzani he headed to Eastern Kurdistan, in the year 1946 with the consent of Sheikh Ahmed Sheikh Muhammad Sheikh Abdulsalam (1892-1969) known as Sheikh Ahmed Barzani and General Mustafa Barzani along with the engineer Jalal Amin Mahmud (1911-2004) known as Jalal Amin Beg they assisted Ismail Ardalani in writing the book Barzan, in the year 1946 he served with the rank of Captain in the ranks of the army of the Republic of Kurdistan, in the year 1946 he served on the Saqqez front in Eastern Kurdistan against the ground forces of the Imperial Iranian Army, in the year 1946 after the collapse of the Republic of Mahabad he assisted the units of the Republic of Mahabad army on the Saqqez front to retreat towards the city of Mahabad, the capital of the Republic of Kurdistan, in the year 1946 he delivered the news of the collapse of the Republic of Kurdistan to Sheikh Latif Sheikh Mahmud Sheikh Said (1917-1972) known as Sheikh Latif the Hafid in the year 1946 after the collapse of the Republic of Kurdistan he was a member of the Kurdish delegation for negotiations with Colonel Ghaffari, the representative of the Imperial Iranian Army, in the year 1946 after the collapse of the Republic of Kurdistan he did not surrender himself to the Iraqi police forces, but after several battles he surrendered himself to the Iranian forces and was placed in the Falak-ol-Aflak prison in the city of Khorramabad, Lorestan in Eastern Kurdistan and later transferred to Qasr prison in the city of Tehran, on January 1, 1950 by the Iranian authorities in exchange for the handover of Iranian officers who participated in the Republic of Mahabad who were imprisoned in the Kingdom of Iraq he was handed over to the authorities of the Kingdom of Iraq from the Khanaqin border, he was sentenced to death by a Military Court and later his sentence was changed to five years of imprisonment, at the end of the year 1952 he was transferred to the Sulaymaniyah prison, in the year 1953 he was released from the Sulaymaniyah prison.

In the year 1957 he worked at the Shara exhibition for radio repair in the city of Sulaymaniyah, in the year 1959 he was pardoned by the authorities due to his participation in the Second Barzan Revolution, on March 23, 1959 by a republican decree and the signature of the Sovereignty Council of Iraq he was returned to the ranks of the Iraqi Republic Army with the rank of Naqib and served in the recruitment office of Qaladiza and Ranya in the Sulaymaniyah province border, in the years (1963-1964) and the years (1974-1975) in the ranks of Aylul Revolution he was a Peshmerga and a commander, in the year 1964 in the town of Qaladiza belonging to the Sulaymaniyah province he was a representative of the Sixth Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the year 1964 he was a member of the twelve-person negotiating delegation of the Sixth Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party which was established with the consent of President Mustafa Barzani to go to the political bureau wing for the purpose of persuading them to participate in the Sixth Congress, but because of the insistence of the political bureau wing on not participating, the delegation did not succeed in its mission.

 In the year 1966 he was returned to the ranks of the Iraqi army and started working with the rank of Muqaddam, at the beginning of the year 1970 before the holding of the Third Congress of the Kurdistan Teachers Union, by the leadership of the Kurdistan Democratic Party his name was proposed among the Kurdish teachers residing in the city of Baghdad for the preparations of the congress, on August 5, 1970 he was a representative of the Third Congress of the Kurdistan Teachers Union in the village of Nawprdan belonging to the Erbil province, on February 2, 1972 he was a representative of the Fourth Congress of the Kurdistan Teachers Union in the city of Erbil, on February 1, 1974 he was a representative of the Fifth Congress of the Kurdistan Teachers Union in the city of Sulaymaniyah, in the year 1974 for the fourth time in his life he rejoined the ranks of the Peshmerga forces.

 

 

Among his works: 

  1. Memoirs.

  2. History of the Kurds and their neighbors - Part One - 2003.

  3. Avesta - 1999.

  4. Geography of Kurdistan - 1998. 

 

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