Abdullah Dawood Hussein was born in 1921 in the village of Barzan, affiliated with the Barzan district in the Mergasor district of Erbil province. On June 21, 1932, he and his family became refugees in the Republic of Turkey. After going to the Soviet Union, he married Gulnaz Abbas Saifullah, and they had two sons and two daughters named Muhyiddin Abdullah (1955), Bahauddin Abdullah (1958), Muhtabar Abdullah (1956), and Munawar Abdullah (1959). After returning to Kurdistan, Abdullah Dawood was appointed as an employee in the Shaqlawa Agriculture Department in 1959, and was later transferred to the Salahaddin Agriculture Department and then to the Barzan Agriculture Department. He knew both the Kurdish and Russian languages. He passed away on December 12, 2006, and was buried in the cemetery of the village of Barzan.
Struggle RecordAbdullah Dawood Hussein was a soldier in Pirdi in 1943 and held the rank of corporal. He deserted from the military and joined the ranks of the Second Barzan Revolution. On October 2, 1943, he participated in the capture of the Shanadar police station, on October 12, he participated in the capture of the Kherazok police station, and on October 20, he participated in the capture of the Shirwani police station. On August 19, 1945, by order of the Iraqi military court, all his movable and immovable property and assets were seized.
After the collapse of the Second Barzan Revolution, he headed to Eastern Kurdistan on October 11, 1945. On March 31, 1946, he became a Peshmerga in the Barzani force affiliated with the army of the Republic of Kurdistan in Mahabad. He participated in the battles of Qalatan and Garki Shan. On April 29, 1946, he participated in the battle of Qarawa in the Saqqez region. After the collapse of the Republic of Kurdistan, he participated in the battle of Nalos on March 3, 1947, and the battle of Naghadeh and Oshnavieh on March 19. He was among the Peshmerga who returned to the Shirwan and Mazuri region through the Khwakurk road and the Barazgar plain through the territory of Northern Kurdistan on April 19, 1947.
After their return, General Mustafa Barzani held a meeting with his companions in the village of Argosh on May 15, 1947, and gave them the choice to stay or go to the Soviet Union. There, all his companions decided to continue and go to the Soviet Union. On May 23, 1947, he accompanied General Mustafa Barzani towards the Soviet Union and participated in the battle of the Qotur valley and the battle of the 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 compound surrounded by barbed wire, and they were guarded by a group of soldiers and were treated like prisoners of war in terms of food, clothing, and movement. Later, by 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 were trained for eight hours of military exercises daily under the supervision of officers of the Republic of Azerbaijan. At the same time, they were taught Kurdish language lessons daily for four hours by some of their companions who were literate.
After the bad treatment of the companions by Jafar Bagirov, it was decided to move the military camp from the Republic of Azerbaijan on August 29, 1948, to the Charchuk community 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 to the collective farms of the Soviet Union and worked in the Kolkhoz fields (lands that people rented from the government and later gave the government's share back).
After much effort and sending several letters by General Mustafa 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 republican government was established in Iraq headed by Abdul Karim Qasim, Abdullah Dawood Hussein returned to Kurdistan on April 16, 1959, with his companions by the ship Georgia via the port of Basra in the south of the Republic of Iraq.
In 1961, he participated in the Aylul Revolution. He participated in the battles of the Nehri Valley, Akre, Pirs, and Sariji Mela between Bile and Barzan. In 1975, after the collapse of the Aylul Revolution, he went to Iran as a refugee and settled in the city of Yazd. He returned to Kurdistan in 1998.
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