Ars Khano Hussein was born in 1912 in the village of Bedaron, part of the Gortu sub-district in the Mergasor district of Erbil province. Before going to the Soviet Union, he was married and had three sons. In 1975, after the collapse of the Aylul Revolution, he went to Iran as a refugee and resided in that country. He knew Kurdish, Persian, and Russian. He passed away in 1994 in the city of Naghadeh in Eastern Kurdistan.
Struggle RecordArs Khano Hussein joined the ranks of the Second Barzan Revolution in 1943. On November 6 of the same year, he participated in the capture of the Gortu police station. On August 19, 1945, by order of the Iraqi military court, all his movable and immovable property was confiscated.
After the collapse of the Second Barzan Revolution on October 11, 1945, he went to Eastern Kurdistan. On March 31, 1946, he became a Peshmerga in the Barzani force affiliated with the army of the Republic of Kurdistan in Mahabad and participated in the battles of the Saqqez front in the Republic of Kurdistan. In 1947, after the collapse of the Republic of Kurdistan, he led the Albe and Koyek front together with Mahmoud Ahmed Babkayi.
Ars Khano Hussein was among the Peshmerga who returned to the Shirwan and Mazuri region through the Khwakurk and Barazgar plains in Northern Kurdistan on April 19, 1947. On April 22, 1947, by order of General Mustafa Barzani he was in charge of the Zidian front together with Mirza Agha Rashid. 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 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 participated in the march towards the Soviet Union, was a group leader, and participated in the battles of the march. On June 18, 1947, he crossed the Aras River, which lies on the border between Iran and the Soviet Union, towards 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, 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, they 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 community near Tashkent, the capital 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 on the Kolkhoz farms (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, and he immediately ordered the formation of a committee to investigate the situation of Barzani's companions. Eventually, the committee's decision was for them all to be gathered in the city of Vrevski, so he went to the city of Vrevski 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 applying 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 and his companions returned to Kurdistan by the ship Gruzia via the port of Basra in the south of the Republic of Iraq.
In 1961, after returning from the Soviet Union, he joined the Peshmerga Forces of the Aylul Revolution and participated in many battles against the invasion of the Iraqi army. In 1962, he was entrusted with the task of protecting the bridge of the village of Sirin, which belongs to the Rawanduz district and is located on the Choman road, because that bridge had great importance for the Peshmerga Forces.
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