Biography

Ahmed Jasim Ahmed was born in 1926 in the village of Pendro, affiliated with the Shirwan Mazn sub-district of Mergasor district in Erbil province. After the collapse of the first Barzan revolution, when Sheikh Ahmed Barzani and a large number of Barzani families took refuge in North Kurdistan, he also became a refugee in the Republic of Turkey with his family on June 21, 1932. However, after the Turkish authorities handed Sheikh Ahmed Barzani over to the Iraqi government in 1933, their family, like all the families who had taken refuge in North Kurdistan with Sheikh Ahmed, returned to South Kurdistan. In the Soviet Union, he married a woman named Shura, studied there, and obtained an institute diploma in the agriculture department. He knew Kurdish, Persian, Turkish, and Russian. He passed away on May 24, 2004, in Pirmam.

Struggle Record

Ahmed Jasim Ahmed joined the ranks of the Second Barzan Revolution in 1943, and 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 East 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 and participated in the battles of the Saqqez front.

After the fall of the Republic of Kurdistan in Mahabad and Barzani's return from East Kurdistan to South Kurdistan, he participated in the Battle of Naghadeh and the Battle of Oshnavieh in East Kurdistan. He was also among the Peshmerga who returned to the Shirwan and Mazuri region through (Khwakurk and the Dashti Barazgar) via the territory of North Kurdistan on April 19, 1947.

After their return, General Mustafa Barzani held a meeting with his companions in the village of Argosh on May 6, 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 Gali Qotur and the Battle of 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 arriving in the Soviet Union, on June 19, 1947, along with all his companions in the city of Nakhchivan in the Republic of Azerbaijan, they were placed for forty days in an open-air complex 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, 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, 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, some of their companions who were literate taught them Kurdish language lessons.

After the poor treatment of his 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 in the collective farms (the lands that people rented from the government and later gave the government's share back).

After much effort and sending several letters by General 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, according to both the third and seventh articles and paragraph (A) of the tenth article and by applying the eleventh article 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, along with his companions, he returned to Kurdistan via the port of Basra in southern Iraq on the ship Grozia.

 He was detained in Mosul prison during the years (1961-1962). He was one of the people who had been registered to be sent to war, and at that time, he escaped from prison in military uniform and hid in the city of Mosul. Later, through the party and with the help of a cadre of the party, he was brought to the city of Erbil. He participated in the Aylul Revolution and in 1975, after the collapse of the Aylul Revolution, he went to Iran as a refugee. He also participated in the Gulan Revolution, and in 1988 he participated in the Battle of Khwakurk, where he was wounded.

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