Abdulrahim Jasim was born in 1925 in the village of Pendro, affiliated with the Shirwan Mazin sub-district in the Mergasor district of Erbil province. He was martyred on September 1, 1983, on Mount Qandil.
Struggle RecordAfter the collapse of the first Barzan revolution on June 21, 1932, he was displaced with his family to the Republic of Turkey, and was later handed over by the Republic of Turkey to the Kingdom of Iraq and transferred to southern Iraq.
In 1945, he joined the ranks of the Second Barzan Revolution and participated in the battles. For this reason, on August 19, 1945, by order of the military martial court, all his movable and immovable property was seized.
On October 11, 1945, after the collapse of the Second Barzan Revolution, along with Mustafa Barzani and his companions, he crossed into Eastern Kurdistan. After the establishment of the Republic of Kurdistan in Mahabad, on March 31, 1946, he defended the Republic within the framework of the Barzan force.
After the fall of the Republic of Kurdistan in Mahabad and the return of Barzani from Eastern Kurdistan to Southern Kurdistan, he participated in the Battle of Naghadeh and the Battle of Oshnavieh in Eastern Kurdistan. He was also among the Peshmerga who returned to the Shirwan and Mizuri region on April 19, 1947, through (Khwakurk and the Barazgir plain) via the territory of Northern Kurdistan.
After their return, General Mustafa Barzani held a meeting with his companions on May 6, 1947, in the village of Argosh and gave them the choice to stay or go to the Soviet Union. There, all the companions decided to continue and go to the Soviet Union. On May 23, 1947, he accompanied General Mustafa Barzani towards the Soviet Union, and right at the beginning of the journey in the village of Dre, he was wounded due to the bombing by the Iraqi Air Force. After initial treatment, he continued on the journey and participated in the battles along the way. After much hardship and fatigue, on June 18, 1947, he crossed into the Soviet Union at the Aras River, which is located on the border between Iran and the Soviet Union.
After arriving in the Soviet Union, on June 19, 1947, along with all his companions, he was placed in the city of Nakhchivan in the Republic of Azerbaijan for forty days in an open-air compound surrounded by barbed wire. They were guarded by a group of soldiers and were treated like prisoners of war in terms of food, clothing, and movement. Later, by the decision of the Soviet government, they were distributed among the regions of Aghdam, Lachin, Ayolakh, 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, were given eight hours of military training daily. At the same time, for four hours a day, they were taught the Kurdish language by some of their companions who were literate.
After the poor treatment of the companions by Jafar Baghirov, it was decided to move the military camp on August 29, 1948, from the Republic of Azerbaijan to the Charchuk complex near Tashkent, the capital of the Republic of Uzbekistan, where 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 the government's share back).
After much effort and the sending of several letters by General Barzani to Stalin, a letter finally 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. 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 Republic of Iraq was established under the presidency of Abdul Karim Qasim. On April 16, 1959, he returned to Kurdistan with his companions by the ship Grozia via the port of Basra in the south of the Republic of Iraq.
In 1960, he was detained by the Iraqi government for six months. In 1961, he participated in the Aylul Revolution and participated in the Battle of Nehli, where he was wounded. He also participated in the battles of Gali Spi, Awgni, Ain Zala, and Mount Matin. He was the Deputy Commander of the Halgurd Force battalion and participated in the Battle of Dukan. In 1969, he was the Deputy Commander of the Kawa Force and in the autumn of the same year, he participated in the attack on the Iraqi army camp. In 1970, he became the Commander of the Hamrin Force in the Surchi region. In 1975, after the collapse of the Aylul Revolution, he fled as a refugee to the Kingdom of Iran and settled in the Zewe complex, later moved to the city of Isfahan, and then settled in the city of Shahreza. In 1980, he participated in the Gulan Revolution as a commander.
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- Haider Farouk Al-Samarrai, Dia Jafar and his Political and Economic Role in Iraq, (London - Dar Al-Hikma - 2016)
- From the memoirs of the martyred commander Haso Mirxan Zhazhoki, 62 Days with Barzani, The Barzanis' Journey to the Soviet Union, First Edition (Erbil - Cultural Press - 1997).
- Masoud Barzani, Barzani and the Kurdish Liberation Movement 1931-1958, (Duhok - Khabat Printing House – 1998).