Siamand Aziz Aris was born in 1920 in the Mergasor district of Erbil Governorate. After going to the Soviet Union in 1952, he was admitted to the Teachers' Institute at Tashkent University, and later studied fitting for two years in the city of Rososh. In the Soviet Union, he married Valia Mikhailov, and they had a son named Hassan Siamand. He was a Russian language teacher at the University of Baghdad and provided medical treatment to Iraq military officers at the Military College in Baghdad.
Struggle RecordOn 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 lies 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 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 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 underwent eight hours of military training daily under the supervision of officers of the Republic of Azerbaijan. At the same time, for four hours a day, some of their companions who were literate taught them the Kurdish language.
After the poor treatment of Barzani's companions by Jafar Baghirov, 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 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 back the government's share).
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. He immediately ordered the formation of a committee to investigate the situation of Barzani's companions, and the committee's final decision was 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.
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 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 Abdul Karim Qasim. On April 16, 1959, he and 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 participated in several battles. On March 3, 1963, he went from Baghdad to Sulaymaniyah. In the Year 1964, after the military conference in Rania, he went to Kirkuk and became the military commander in that region in Chamchamal and Tuz Khurmatu. In the Aylul Revolution , he was the commander of the 9th Battalion of the Qaradagh Force. He was arrested along with Omar Sharif and Malko Zero by Rais Kamal. He was a Martyr in Chermaga in the Year 1966.
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