Biography

Mal Muhammad Amin was born in 1907 in the village of Leri, which belongs to the Sherwan Mazn sub-district in the Barzan region. After the outbreak of the First Barzan Revolution in Southern Kurdistan in the year (1931-1932), he was displaced to the country of Turkey. He was married and had a two-year-old son.

Struggle Record

After the outbreak of the First Barzan Revolution in Southern Kurdistan, specifically in the Barzan region (1931-1932), he joined the ranks of the revolutionary army. In 1943, after the return of Mullah Mustafa Barzani from Sulaymaniyah to the Barzan region and the outbreak of the Second Barzan Revolution (1943-1945), he joined the ranks of the revolutionary army for the second time and participated in the battles to capture the police stations in the Barzan region. In 1945, after the collapse of the Second Barzan Revolution (1943-1945), he was displaced along with the Barzani fighters and families to Eastern Kurdistan (Iran). After the establishment of the Democratic Republic of Kurdistan in Mahabad at the beginning of 1946, he became a Peshmerga of the Republic in the Barzan Force and held the rank of Sarqula. After the fall of the Democratic Republic of Kurdistan in December 1946, along with the Barzani revolutionary army under the command of General Mustafa Barzani, after several battles and struggles against the Imperial Iranian Army, he returned to Southern Kurdistan through the Nazdardagh area at the tri-border of Iran-Iraq-Turkey and settled in the ranks of the army in the Mizuri tribe area.

On May 6, 1947, after the historic decision of General Mustafa Barzani in the Argosh meeting not to surrender to the Iraqi government and to head toward the Soviet Union, he decided to leave along with the Barzani revolutionary army with more than five hundred fighters under the leadership of General Mustafa Barzani. He became one of Barzani's companions to the Soviet Union. On April 15, 1947, in the battle during the journey to the Soviet Union, he was severely wounded twice, and as a result, he was martyred on June 12, 1947, and was buried in the village of Hason, which is located at the tri-border of Iran, Turkey, and Russia.

Sources:

1- Dengi Peshmerga Magazine, Issue 154, January 2011, Martyr Commander Mal Muhammad Amin Omar Leri.

2- Zrar Suleiman Beg Dargalayi, My Memories in the Years 1943-1977, Rahand Printing House - Sulaymaniyah, 2002.

3- Shawkat Sheikh Yazdin, Golden Jubilee of the Peshmerga, (Pirman - Khabat Printing House - 1996).

4- Not Surrendering and Crossing the Aras River, prepared by the Cultural and Media Office of Branch 12, 2009.

5- Archive of the Encyclopedia Board of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.

6- Rashid Mullah Ali Koleki, Life and Resistance in the Path of the Immortal Barzani's Companion ((Kazim Shanadari)), Rojhalat Printing House - Erbil, 2019.