Biography

Abdulrahman Tayeb Mufti was born in the Amadiya district of Duhok Governorate. He studied in the Soviet Union and in 1954 received a bachelor's degree in politics and economics. In the Soviet Union in 1954, he married Vasilia Muhammad Jar Hamid; they had a son named Rashwan Abdulrahman (1956). Abdulrahman Mufti passed away in 1993 and was buried in the Abu Ghraib cemetery.

Struggle Record  

Abdulrahman Tayeb Mufti participated in the march toward the Soviet Union on May 23, 1947, and was an advisor to Mullah Mustafa Barzani . He participated in the march battles and, on May 28, 1947, at the request of Mirhaj Ahmed, participated in the meeting of the village of Jirme.

 On June 18, 1947, he crossed the Aras River, which is located on the border between Iran and the Soviet Union, toward 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. 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 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, under the supervision of officers of the Republic of Azerbaijan, were given eight hours of military training daily. At the same time, for four hours a day, some of their companions who were literate taught them the Kurdish language.

After Jafar Bagirov's poor treatment of his companions, 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. 

On January 19, 1948, at the general conference of Baku, which was held by representatives of the Kurds of Iraqi and Iranian Kurdistan, he became a member of the political leadership in Iraqi Kurdistan.

In March 1949, he and his companions were distributed in groups and teams by train to the collective villages of the Soviet Union and worked on the collective farms (Kolkhozes) (those 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 final 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 by working according to article (11) based on the amended Law No. 19 of 1959, he and his companions were covered by a general amnesty. 

In 1958, the Republic of Iraq was established under the presidency of Abdul Karim Qasim, and on April 16, 1959, he and his companions returned to Kurdistan by the ship Grozia via the port of Basra in the south of the Republic of Iraq.  

After returning from the Soviet Union, he was employed as a civil servant in Baghdad in 1959 and was later given the rank of Major. In 1963, he was retired and later imprisoned by the Iraqi government along with Mirhaj Ahmed.

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