Biography

Abdulhuseyn Ali Alush, known by the name (Abdulhuseyn Feyli), was born in the city of Baghdad in the Year 1932. He grew up in a merchant family of Feyli Kurds in Baghdad and he himself was engaged in the trading business. He was one of the Kurdish philanthropists in Baghdad for helping poor and victimized Kurds in all parts of Kurdistan. He completed the preparatory stage. In the Year 1955, he began financial support for the Feyli primary school in Baghdad for the admission of students from poor and needy Kurdish families. In the Year 1964, due to his support for the political bureau group, he headed to the Kingdom of Iran and lived there as a refugee. In the Year 1979, with the success of the revolution of the peoples of Iran, he returned to the Republic of Iraq. In the Year 2015, he passed away in the Republic of Germany. He was proficient in the Kurdish, Arabic, Persian, English, and German languages.

Work History

In the Year 1951, he joined the ranks of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. In the Year 1953, he struggled in the ranks of the Kurdistan Democratic Youth Union. In the Year 1953, he was one of those who managed the relations between the Kurdistan Democratic Party – Iraq and Dr. Ja'far Muhammad Karim (1910 - 2000), who is known as Dr. Ja'far Feyli, a member of the political bureau of the Kurdistan Democratic Party – Iraq, in the city of Tehran. On 6 October 1958, on behalf of the Feyli merchants of Baghdad, he was a member of the welcoming delegation for President Mustafa Barzani (1903 - 1979) at the Al-Muthanna Airport in Baghdad. In the Year 1958, he was a member of the five-person committee overseeing the Kurdish Success Club in the city of Baghdad. In the Year 1959, he was a representative of the Second Baghdad Conference of the United Kurdistan Democratic Party. In the Year 1959, he was a representative of the Fourth Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party – Iraq in the city of Baghdad. On Saturday, 8 February 1960, he was a member of the fifty-person board supporting the establishment of the Kurdistan Democratic Party for the phase of open work. In the Year 1960, he was elected by the congress delegates as a member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (Fifth Congress). On 30 July 1961, he was arrested for a short time by the Iraqi general security forces for distributing a statement of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the city of Baghdad against Brigadier General Abdul Karim Qasim (1914 - 1963), which mentions the violation of the constitutional and political rights of the Kurdish nation within the border of the Republic of Iraq.

In the Year 1961, he was the person in charge of the secret military and Iraqi police line, affiliated with the Kurdistan Democratic Party, in central and southern Iraq. In the Year 1961, at the beginning of the September Revolution, he was the supervisor and manager of the secret printing press of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the city of Baghdad. In the Year 1963, he was a member of the Fifth Branch Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. In the Year 1963, he was a representative of the Koya Congress (First People's Congress). On 30 March 1963, he was a member of the Kurdistan Democratic Party negotiation delegation that negotiated with the Baghdad authorities regarding the rights of the Kurds.

In the Year 1963, he was a member of the Kurdistan Democratic Party delegation to deliver a letter from President Mustafa Barzani (1903 - 1979) to Grand Ayatollah Abdul Muhsin al-Hakim (1889 - 1970) in the town of Kufa. In the Year 1963, during the negotiations, when he returned to South Kurdistan, he was arrested by the army in the city of Kirkuk and was detained and tortured by the Iraqi security forces. In the Year 1963, he was held in the Hilla prison. On 14 February 1964, after negotiations between the leadership of the Kurdistan Democratic Party and the government of Abdul Salam Muhammad Arif (1921 - 1966), he was released from the central prison of Baghdad. In the Year 1964, in the expanded meeting of Mawet, he was condemned by the political bureau faction. This was retaliation for his ideas in the First People's Congress, which were against the views of the political bureau regarding President Mustafa Barzani (1903 - 1979), and because of this, he was ignored. In the Year 1964, by the Representatives of the Sixth Congress, by the majority of votes of the Representatives of the Sixth Congress of the Party, he was expelled from the ranks of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.

 In the Year 1965, he was employed as an official at the Kermanshah radio in East Kurdistan.

References :

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2 - Ibrahim Farhamandnia, The Genocide of the Kurds by International Law, (Marivan – Evin Publications – 1396 H.S.), pages 24 – 27.

3 - Zaki Ja'far Al-Feyli Al-Alawi, History of the Feyli Kurds and the Future, (Beirut – Al-Balagh Foundation for Printing, Publishing and Distribution – 2010), page 522.

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