Biography

Said Abdulwahab was born in 1918 in the village of Argosh, affiliated with the Shirwan Mazn sub-district in the Mergasor district of Erbil province. He learned to read and write through studying the Quran and reading the books of Bustan and Gulistan. Before going to the Soviet Union, he was married, and his wife's name was Rahima Abdullah Hamid. They had two sons named Shakir Said (1948) and Sadiq Said (1949). He studied in the Soviet Union; in 1952, he was admitted to Tashkent University and received a bachelor's degree in the Department of Geography. In 1959, he became a teacher for two years in the Geography Department of the College of Arts at the University of Baghdad. He passed away on June 18, 2001, in Pirmam.

Struggle History

In 1940, he became a Military soldier in the government of Iraq. In 1943, he deserted the military and joined the ranks of the Second Barzan Revolution. On October 2, 1943, he participated in the capture of the police stations of Shanadar, Shirwan Mazn, and the Vazhe Valley. On August 19, 1945, by order of the Iraqi military tribunal, all his movable and immovable property was seized. On September 5, 1945, he participated in the capture of the Maydan Morik police station. On October 11, 1945, following the collapse of the Second Barzan Revolution, he headed to Eastern Kurdistan. On March 31, 1946, he became a Peshmerga in the Barzan Force affiliated with the army of the Republic of Kurdistan in Mahabad. On April 29, 1946, he participated in the Battle of Qarawa in the Saqqez region of Eastern Kurdistan.

 In 1947, after the collapse of the Republic of Kurdistan, he participated in the battles of the Qalatan and Targawar regions and was wounded in this battle. He was among the Peshmerga who returned to the Shirwan and Mizuri region through the (Khwakurk and Barazgir plain) route through the territory of 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 Argosh and gave them the choice of staying or heading towards the Soviet Union. There, all his 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 Qotur Valley 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 arriving in the Soviet Union, on June 19, 1947, he and all his companions were placed in the city of Nakhchivan in the Republic of Azerbaijan for forty days in an open-air complex 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, Ayulakh, 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.

After the mistreatment of his companions by Jafar Baghirov, it was decided to move the military camp on August 29, 1948, from the Republic of Azerbaijan to the Charchuk complex near Tashkent, the capital of the Republic of Uzbekistan, where they continued their military training.

In March 1949, he and his companions were distributed in groups and squads by train among the collective villages of the Soviet Union and worked on the collective farms (the 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. Eventually, 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, and according to both the third and seventh articles and paragraph (a) of the tenth article and the implementation of 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 Abdul Karim Qasim. On April 16, 1959, he and his companions returned to Kurdistan by the ship Grozia via the port of Basra in the south of the Republic of Iraq. 

 In 1961, he participated in the Aylul Revolution, participated in the battles of Mriba and Sarsing, and was made a battalion commander in the Badinan region. In 1975, after the collapse of the Aylul Revolution, he headed to Iran as a refugee, settled in the Ziwe complex in Eastern Kurdistan, and was later moved to the city of Isfahan and then settled in Natanz. He was a member of the Kurdistan Democratic Party organization in the city of Isfahan. In 1980, he returned to the Ziwe complex and participated in the Gulan Revolution and was made a battalion commander. He participated in the battles of Gali Rash and Katin in the form of detachments. In 1983, he broke his knee due to falling on the Konalajan road.

 In 1991, he participated in the uprising in the areas of Mergasor and the village of Argosh. On August 16, 1993, at the Eleventh Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party – Unified, within the framework of the Golden Jubilee celebrations, for his struggle and resistance in the Second Barzan Revolution, the Republic of Kurdistan, the path towards the Soviet Union, and Aylul Revolution، Gulan Revolution and the uprising, by President Masoud Barzani he was awarded the Barzani the Immortal Medal. In 1996, he returned to Kurdistan and settled in Pirmam.

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