Suleyman Shawali Osman

Suleyman Shawali Osman, Peshmerga and Barzani's comrades in the Soviet Union, he participated in the September Revolution, martyred in the Battle of Bardin on July 13, 1963.


Biography 

In 1920, he was born in Shanadar village in Goratu sub-district in Mergasor district in Erbil Governorate; he studied in the Soviet Union. He was accepted on 15 February 1954 at Tashkent University, and on March 29, 1959, he was able to obtain a diploma. In 1959, he became a lecturer at Baghdad University and in The Military College in Baghdad They were administering drugs to Iraqi officers.


Memoir of struggle 

On May 23, 1947, Suleiman Shawali accompanied General Mustafa Barzani to the Soviet Union and participated in the Battle of the Stream of Qatur and the battle of Mako bridge. After a lot of hard work, he crossed the Aras River into the Soviet Union, which is located at the border between Iran and the Soviet Union, on June 18, 1947.

After their arrival in the Soviet Union, on June 19, 1947, they were placed with all their comrades in the city of Nakhchawan, in the Republic of Azerbaijan, for forty days in a deserted community surrounded by barb wires and guarded by a group of soldiers and regarding food, clothing, and mobility they were treated as prisoners of war. Later, on the decision of the Soviet government, they were distributed over the areas of Aghdam, Lachin, Ayolah and Kalbajar in Azerbaijan. On December 10, 1947, they were transferred to a military base on the Khazar Sea in The Capital of Azerbaijan, Baku, and on the 23th of the same month, they were given military uniforms and were trained eight hours a day under the supervision of Azerbaijani officers. At the same time, for four hours a day, they were taught Kurdish language lessons by some of their educated comrades.

After Jafaar Bagrov's ill treatment of his comrades, Barzani decides to move his military camp from Azerbaijan to the Chirchik community to Nearby Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan, where they will continue their military training.

In March 1949, he and his friends were distributed as groups and units into the rural villages of the Soviet Union by train and worked in the Kolkhoz farms (land that people rented from the government and then paid back the government share).

 

After much effort and many letters sent by General Barzani to Stalin, a letter finally arrives in Stalin's hand in which Barzani discusses the problems of his comrades and Stalin immediately decides to form a committee to investigate the situation of Barzani's comrades, and finally the committee's decision is to gather them all in the city of Vrivski, so he will go to the Soviet city of Vrivski in November 1951.

Following the revolution of July 14, 1958 in Iraq and the return of General Mustafa Barzani, on February 25, 1959, in accordance with both Articles III and VII and section (A) of Article Ten and working with article 11, in accordance with the amended law No. 19 of 1959, he and his comrades were subjected to general amnesty.

 

In 1958, the Republic of Iraq was established under the presidency of Abd al-Karim Qasim, the aforementioned returned to Kurdistan on April 16, 1959, with his friends on the Groza ship via Basra port in southern of the republic of Iraq.

He participated in the September Revolution, he was martyred in the Battle of Bardin on July 13, 1963, and his body was left in the war field.


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