Ali Muhammad Mahmud Khal Hamza, known as Ali Hamada Goj, was born in 1927 in the Mergasor district of Erbil Governorate. He was married and a graduate of the Agricultural Institute in the Soviet Union. In 1959, after returning from the Soviet Union, he became an employee at the Agricultural Department in the city of Sulaymaniyah.
In 1975, after the collapse of the Aylul Revolution, he was displaced to Iran for the second time, settled in the city of Kashan, and became a teacher in one of the schools in the city of Kashan.
On July 15, 1985, he passed away due to cancer and was buried in the cemetery of the city of Oshnavieh.
Struggle RecordOn 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 and the return of Barzani from Eastern Kurdistan to Southern Kurdistan, he participated in the defense battles of Eastern Kurdistan until he did not surrender on the Iran-Iraq border on April 19, 1947, and was with General Mustafa Barzani . General Mustafa Barzani held a meeting with his companions in the village of Argosh on March 15, 1947, and gave them the choice to stay or go towards the Soviet Union. There, all the companions decided to continue and go towards the Soviet Union. On May 22, 1947, he accompanied General Mustafa Barzani towards the Soviet Union and participated in the Battle of Kotol (Qotur) 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, 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. They were guarded by a group of soldiers and were treated as 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 underwent eight hours of military training daily under the supervision of officers of the Republic of Azerbaijan. At the same time, for four hours a day, they were taught lessons in the Kurdish language by some of their companions who were literate.
After the poor treatment of the companions by Jafar Baghirov, it was decided that the military camp of the Barzani companions would be moved on August 29, 1948, from the Republic of Azerbaijan to the Charchuk compound 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 to the collective villages 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. He immediately ordered the formation of a committee to investigate the situation of the Barzani companions, and the committee's final decision was that they should all be gathered in the city of Vrevsky. Therefore, Ali Muhammad Mahmud went to the city of Vrevsky in the Soviet Union in November 1951.
In 1958, the Republic of Iraq was established under the presidency of Abd al-Karim Qasim. On April 16, 1959, Ali Muhammad Mahmud, along with his companions, returned to Kurdistan via the port of Basra in the south of the Republic of Iraq on the ship Gruzia.
In 1961, with the start of the great Aylul Revolution, he returned to Mergasor with his family and children and participated in the great revolution led by Barzani. He participated in the battles of Zawita, north of Akre, and those borders in the Badinan region.
In 1963, he participated in all the battles between the Barzan and Rawanduz regions. In (1963-1965), due to his bravery and heroism in the Hassan Khal Hamza battalion, he was promoted to Head of Branch and participated in the battles of Zozk, Gali Omar Agha, and other battles.
In 1980, he returned to Eastern Kurdistan and joined the Peshmerga Forces of the Gulan Revolution, participating in activities and battles.
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