Biography

He was born in 1930 in the village of Silke, affiliated with the Shirwan Mazin sub-district in the Mergasor district of Erbil province. On July 31, 1983, during the Anfal operation of the Barzanis, his son named Jawhar Jawhar Hussein (1963-1983) was disappeared by the Iraqi government. Jawhar Hussein was martyred in 1963 in the Battle of Mount Matin.

Struggle Record

After the outbreak of the Second Barzan Revolution in 1943, he joined the ranks of the revolution. For this reason, on August 19, 1945, by order of the military tribunal, all his movable and immovable property was seized.

On October 11, 1945, after the defeat of the Second Barzan Revolution, he crossed into Eastern Kurdistan with Mustafa Barzani and his companions. 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 fall of the Republic of Kurdistan in Mahabad and the return of Mustafa Barzani from Eastern Kurdistan to Southern Kurdistan, he participated in the Saqqez front battle in Eastern Kurdistan. He was also among the Peshmerga who returned to the Shirwan and Muzuri region through (Khwakurk and the Barazgir plain) in Northern Kurdistan on April 19, 1947.

After their return, General Mustafa Barzani held a meeting with his companions on May 6, 1947, in the village of Argush and gave them the choice to stay or go to the Soviet Union. There, all his companions decided to continue and go to the Soviet Union. On May 23, 1947, he accompanied General Mustafa Barzani towards the Soviet Union and participated in the Battle of Qotur 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 their arrival in the Soviet Union, on June 19, 1947, along with all his companions, they were placed in the city of Nakhchivan in the Republic of Azerbaijan for forty days in an open-air compound surrounded by barbed wire. They were guarded by a group of soldiers and were treated like prisoners of war in terms of food, clothing, and movement. Later, by the decision of the Soviet government, they were distributed among the regions of Aghdam, Lachin, Ayolakh, 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, they were given eight hours of military training daily. At the same time, for four hours a day, some of their companions who were literate taught them lessons in learning the Kurdish language.

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 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 collective farms (the lands that people rented from the government and later gave back the government's share).

After much effort and sending several letters by General Mustafa Barzani to Stalin, a letter finally reached Stalin in which Mustafa Barzani described the hardships of his companions. He immediately ordered the formation of a committee to investigate the situation of the companions of Mustafa Barzani, and finally, the committee's decision was that they should all be gathered in the city of Vriviski. Therefore, he went to the city of Vriviski in the Soviet Union in November 1951.

After the revolution of July 14, 1958, in Iraq and the return of General Mustafa Barzani on February 25, 1959, 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 granted a general amnesty.

In 1958, the Republic of Iraq was established under the presidency of Abd al-Karim Qasim. On April 16, 1959, he, along with his companions, returned to Kurdistan via the port of Basra in the south of the Republic of Iraq on the ship Grozia.   

In the year 1961, he participated in the Aylul Revolution and became a Head of Branch and participated in the battles. In 1963, in the battle of Mount Matin he was martyred.

Sources:

Archive of the Encyclopedia Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party