Biography

Mela Ibrahim Hasenaki was born in 1927 in the village of Hasenaka in the Mergasor district of Erbil Governorate. In 1959, when he was only seven months away from obtaining his agricultural diploma, he returned to Kurdistan. He passed away on January 21, 2018, and his body was buried in the cemetery of the village of Hasenaka.

Struggle Record

 When he was nine years old, his father Babakir and three of his uncles were martyred in 1933 during the First Barzan Revolution. In 1943, he joined the ranks of the Second Barzan Revolution and participated in the battles; 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 collapse of the Second Barzan Revolution, along with Mustafa Barzani and his companions, he crossed into Eastern 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 fall of the Republic of Kurdistan in Mahabad and the return of Barzani from Eastern Kurdistan to Southern Kurdistan, he participated in the Battle of Naghadeh and the Battle of Oshnavieh in Eastern Kurdistan. He was also among the Peshmerga who returned to the Shirwan and Mazuri region on April 19, 1947, through (Khwakurk and the Barazgir Plain) via the territory of Northern Kurdistan.

After their return, General Mustafa Barzani held a meeting with his companions on May 6, 1947, in the village of Argosh and gave them the choice of staying or heading towards the Soviet Union. There, all the companions decided to continue and head towards the Soviet Union. On May 23, 1947, he accompanied General Mustafa Barzani towards the Soviet Union and participated in the Battle of Gali Qotur and the Battle of the Maku Bridge. After much hardship and fatigue, on June 18, 1947, he crossed the Aras River, which lies on the border between Iran and the Soviet Union, towards the Soviet Union.

After arriving in the Soviet Union, on June 19, 1947, along with all his companions, he was placed in the city of Nakhchivan in the Republic of Azerbaijan for forty days in an open-air compound surrounded by barbed wire, guarded by a group of soldiers, and treated as 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, Ayulakh, and Kalbajar in the Republic of Azerbaijan. On December 10, 1947, they were transferred 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, were given eight hours of military training daily. At the same time, for four hours a day, they were taught Kurdish language lessons by some of their companions who were literate.

After Jafar Baghirov's poor treatment of the companions, it was decided to move the military camp on August 29, 1948, from the Republic of Azerbaijan to the Charchuk community 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 across the collective villages of the Soviet Union and worked on the Kolkhoz farms (lands that people rented from the government and later gave the government's share back).

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

After the July 14, 1958 revolution 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 by applying the eleventh article 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 and his companions returned to Kurdistan by the ship Gruzia, via the port of Basra in the south of the Republic of Iraq.

In 1961, he participated in the Aylul Revolution. In 1966, he was the head of the Peshmerga guards of Mela Mustafa Barzani . On September 29, 1971, he was wounded in the plot at the headquarters of the immortal Barzani in Haji Omaran. In 1975, after the collapse of the Aylul Revolution, he went to the country of Iran as a refugee. In 1976, he worked in an advisory committee for the cooperation of Idris Barzani  and Masoud Barzani  .

On August 16, 1996, within the framework of the Golden Jubilee celebrations, due to his struggle and resistance in the Second Barzan Revolution, the Republic of Kurdistan, accompanying Barzani towards the Soviet Union, Aylul Revolution and Gulan Revolution, he was awarded the Barzani Medal by President Masoud Barzani. He passed away on January 21, 2018, and his body was buried in the cemetery of the village of Hasenaka.

Sources:

  1. Archive of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Encyclopedia Board.

  2. Hamid Gawhari, The Barzani Medal: The Highest Honor Award, Volume One, (Erbil - Haji Hashim Printing House - 2015).
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  6. Archive of the Encyclopedia Board, Mela Ibrahim Babakir Ismail form, dated November 1, 2018 - Pirmam.
  7. Text of the General Amnesty Committee decision to restore the reputation of the martyrs of the Barzan revolution, Rizgari Magazine, Issue 2, 3, Al-Rabita Press, Baghdad, April 1, 1959.