Abdullah Hussein Jarjis was born in 1917 in the village of Pendro, affiliated with the Shirwan Mazn sub-district in the Mergasor district of Erbil Governorate. Before going to the Soviet Union, he was married, and his wife's name was Saliha Mahmoud Qadir; they had a daughter named Pori. Abdullah Hussein studied in the Soviet Union and received a bachelor's degree. After his return from the Soviet Union, in 1959, he was employed as an employee at the spinning and weaving factory in the city of Mosul, and later he was transferred to the Erbil carpet factory, and then he was employed at the Erbil cigarette factory. He was proficient in both Kurdish and Russian languages. He passed away on September 2, 2013, in Pirmam and was buried in the Baharka district of Erbil Governorate.
Struggle RecordAbdullah Hussein Jarjis joined the ranks of the First Barzan Revolution in 1931 and participated in the battles. In 1943, he joined the ranks of the Second Barzan Revolution. On October 2 of the same year, 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 police stations of Chami and Shirwan Mazn. He also participated in the capture of the Mazni police station in the Mergasor district on November 10, 1943.
On August 8, 1945, he participated in the capture of the Mergasor police station. On August 19, 1945, by order of the Iraqi military court, all his movable and immovable property was seized. On September 5, 1945, he participated in the capture of the Maydan Morik police station and participated in the Battle of Kanyarash. On October 11, 1945, after the collapse of the Second Barzan Revolution, he headed to Eastern Kurdistan. On March 31, 1946, in the Barzani force affiliated with the army of the Republic of Kurdistan, he and his father and brother, named Hussein Jarjis and Shino Hussein, became Peshmerga. On April 29 of the same year, he participated in the battles of Qarawa and Mirdei in the Saqqez region, and on May 3, 1946, he participated in the Battle of Milqareni in Eastern Kurdistan.
After the collapse of the Republic of Kurdistan, on March 3, 1947, he participated in the Battle of Nalos, and on March 19, he participated in the Battle of Naghadeh and Oshnavieh. He was among the Peshmerga who returned to the Shirwan and Mizuri region through the Khwakurk and Barazgar plains through the territory of Northern Kurdistan on April 19, 1947.
After their return, General Mustafa Barzani held a meeting with his companions on May 15, 1947, in the village of Argosh and gave them the choice of staying or going towards the Soviet Union. There, all the companions decided to continue and go towards the Soviet Union. On May 23, 1947, along with his father Hussein Jarjis, he accompanied General Mustafa Barzani towards the Soviet Union and participated in the Battle of Gali Qotur and the Battle of the Maku Bridge. After much hardship and fatigue, on June 18, 1947, at the Aras River, which is located on the border between Iran and the Soviet Union, he crossed into the Soviet Union.
After their arrival in the Soviet Union, on June 19, 1947, along with all his companions, they 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. In terms of food, clothing, and movement, they were treated like prisoners of war. 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 transferred 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, under the supervision of the officers of the Republic of Azerbaijan, they were trained for eight hours of military exercises daily. At the same time, for four hours a day, they were taught Kurdish language lessons 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 on August 29, 1948, from the Republic of Azerbaijan to the Charchuk compound near Tashkent, the capital of the Republic of Uzbekistan, and there they continued their military training.
In March 1949, along with his companions, they were distributed in groups and squads by train among the collective villages of the Soviet Union and worked on the collective farms (the 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, finally a letter reached Stalin in which Barzani described the hardships of his companions, and he immediately decided to form a committee to investigate the situation of Barzani's companions, and finally 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 working with article (11) based on the amended Law No. 19 of 1959, he and his companions were covered by the general amnesty.
In 1958, the Republic of Iraq was established under the presidency of Abd al-Karim Qasim. Abdullah Hussein Jarjis returned to Kurdistan on April 16, 1959, with his companions on the ship Grozia via the port of Basra in the south of the Republic of Iraq.
In 1961, he participated in the Aylul Revolution and was a Sarpal and participated in the battles. In 1975, after the collapse of the Aylul Revolution , he headed to Iran as a refugee. In Halaj, he was a guard at the shrine of the immortal Barzani.
Abdullah Hussein Jarjis returned to Kurdistan in 1997. On December 16, 2010, at the Thirteenth Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, because of his struggle and resistance in the First and Second Barzan Revolutions, the Republic of Mahabad, the path towards the Soviet Union, Aylul Revolution , by President Masoud Barzani He has been awarded the Barzani the Immortal medal, and on March 14, 2013, on the occasion of the anniversary of the Duhok uprising, he also received other medals from the Duhok Cultural Directorate.
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