Biography

Mela Rasul was born in 1927 in the Mergasor district of Erbil province. He studied at the Party School college in Moscow, Soviet Union. He knew both Kurdish and Russian languages. He passed away in 1952 in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, in the Soviet Union and was buried there.

Struggle Record

In 1943, he joined the ranks of the Second Barzan Revolution and participated in the battles. On August 19, 1945, by order of the Iraqi military tribunal, all his movable and immovable property was seized. On October 11 of the same year, after the collapse of the Second Barzan Revolution, he headed to Eastern Kurdistan. On March 31, 1946, he was a Peshmerga in the Barzan force affiliated with the army of the Republic of Kurdistan in Mahabad and participated in the battles of the Saqqez front in the Republic of Kurdistan. On April 29 of that year, he participated in the Battle of Qarawa in the Saqqez region.

 On April 19, 1947, he decided to remain under the command of General Mustafa Barzani and continue the resistance. On May 23, 1947, along with his two brothers named (Muhammad Mela Muhammad and Hassan Mela Muhammad), they participated in the march towards the Soviet Union. From June 9, 1947, to June 11 of the same year, he participated in the battles of the Qotur Valley and the Maku Bridge. On June 18, 1947, he crossed the Aras River, which is located on the border between Iran and the Soviet Union, and crossed into the Soviet Union.

After arriving in the Soviet Union, on June 19, 1947, along with all his companions, they were placed in an open-air compound surrounded by barbed wire in the city of Nakhchivan in the Republic of Azerbaijan for forty days. They were guarded by a group of soldiers and were 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, Ayolakh, 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, they 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 the mistreatment of the companions by Jafar Baghirov, 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 to the collective villages of the Soviet Union and worked on the collective farms (Kolkhozes) (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 describes the hardships of his companions, and he immediately orders the formation of a committee to investigate the situation of Barzani's companions. Eventually, the committee's decision is that they should all be gathered in the city of Vriviski, so he went to the city of Vriviski in the Soviet Union in November 1951.

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