Jamil Tawfiq Hussein

Jamil Tawfiq Hussein, also known as Jamil Soor, Peshmerga and Barzani's comrade to the Soviet Union, He was born in 1912 in Bamarne district. He was a fighter in the Second Barzan Revolution and also participated in the Eylul Revolution. Furthermore, he was a brave Peshmerga in the Kurdistan Democratic Republic in Mahabad. For that reason, he was selected branch leader in the Peshmerga forces. Unfortunately, he was martyred in 1963.


Biography

Jamil Tawfiq Hussein, also known as Jamil Soor, was born in 1912 in Bamarni district of Amedi district in Duhok province.  In 1939 he joined the ranks of the Hiwa Party. Before going to the Soviet Union, he was married to Maryam Mustafa Taha and they had two sons and a daughter Ezzat Jamil, who was born in 1936, Bahzad Jamil was born in 1940 and Gulizar Jamil was born in 1942. After moving to the Soviet Union, he married Zulfia Aghalib Safar and they have one son and two daughters, Abdullah Jamil (born 1954), Asmar Jamil (born 1952) and Zulekha Jamil (born 1956). He was martyred on the night of 4-5 October 1963 in the battle of Matin Mountain.


Service Record

In 1945 he joined the ranks of the Second Barzan Revolution and participated in the fighting. On August 19, 1945, the Military Customary Court ordered the confiscation of all his property. 

After the second Barzan revolution's defeat on January 11th, 1945, Mustafa Barzani and his companions went to the east of Kurdistan. After the Kurdistan Republic in Mahabad fell apart, Barzani returned from the east of Kurdistan to the south of Kurdistan. During that time, he participated in Naghada and Shno conflicts. In April19, 1947 he was one of the Peshmarga who returned to Sherwan and the Mzuri region through Khuakwrk and Barazgr area in the north of Kurdistan.

After their return on May 15, 1947, General Mustafa Barzani convenes a conference with his comrades in the village of Argush, and he gives them the option of remaining in Kurdistan or going to the Soviet Union. As a result, on April 23, 1947, he left for the Soviet Union alongside Mustafa Barzani. After that, he was engaged in the Gali Qtur and Prdi Mako fights. After a long and much difficulty, on June 18, 1947, on the Iranian-Soviet border, Mulla Mustafa Barzani and his force crossed the Aras River. 

Following their arrival in to Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan on June 19th, 1947, Mustafa Barzani and all of his companions were imprisoned for forty days. In fact, they were given the same treatment as prisoners of war in terms of food, clothing, and transportation while living in a camp which was surrounded by barbed wire and guarded by soldiers. Not long after, by decision of Soviet Union government, they were divided into groups and transferred to the regions of Aghdam, Lachin, Ayulakh and Kalbajar in the Republic of Azerbaijan. By December 10, 1947, they were moved to a military base on the Caspian Sea in Baku, the capital of the Republic of Azerbaijan.  On the 23rd of the same month on the Caspian Sea in Baku, the capital of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Barzani's followers were organized into a military regiment and received training in military tactics and politics and taught to read and write Kurdish by their other educated Peshmarga.

As a result of Jafar Bakirov's mistreatment, On August 29, 1948, Mulla Mustafa Barzani made the decision to relocate his military camp from Azerbaijan to the village of Chirchuk close to Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan, where they sustained their military training. 

Following that, in March 1949, Mulla Mustafa and his friends were split up into groups and sent by rail to the countryside of the Soviet Union, where they worked on the kolkhozes' crops. (Land that people rented from the government and then returned to it).

Finally after much effort and sending several letters by General Barzani to Stalin, Stalin finally received a letter in which Barzani talked about the suffering of his comrades. Stalin immediately decided to form a committee to investigate the situation of Barzani's comrades. When the committee investigated the situation of Barzani's comrades, they decided to gather them all in Vrievsky. As a result on November 1951, he went to Vrevsky, Soviet Union. 

Once General Mustafa Barzani returns to Iraq after the revolution On July 14, 1958, he and his allies were got a general amnesty On February 25, 1959 in accordance with Articles 3 and 7, Paragraph (a) of Article 10, and Working with Article (11) based on the Amended Law No. 19. 

In 1958, the Iraqi Republic was established under the leadership of Abdul Karim Qasim. Moreover, he returned to Kurdistan on April 16, 1959 with his comrades on the ship Grozya through the port of Basra in the south of the Iraqi Republic. Subsequently, he returned to Kurdistan from southern Iraq and settled in Sarsang. In 1961, he affliated in the Eylul Revolution and he was a leader to one of the branches. Besides, he was in charge of Spana-Bamerni area (Duhok). Also, he participated in several conquests including the Eylul Revolution, the Dastan of Gale Zawita, Gale Qantara and the Battle of Siartika. on the night of 4-5 October 1963, He was martyred in the battle of Mount Matin.


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