Biography

Aziz Habib was born in 1929 in the village of Bedarune in the Goretu district of the Mergasor district in Erbil province. He was originally from the village of Piresale and continued his agricultural studies in the Soviet Union.

Work History

Aziz Habib went to the Soviet Union with General Mustafa Barzani on May 23, 1947, and participated in the Qutur Valley battle and the Mako Bridge battle. After many hardships, he crossed the Aras River on the border between Iran and the Soviet Union on June 18, 1947.

After their arrival in the Soviet Union, on June 19, 1947, he and all his companions were placed in a closed camp in the city of Nakhchivan in the Republic of Azerbaijan, surrounded by barbed wire for forty days. They were guarded by a group of soldiers and were treated like prisoners of war in terms of food, clothing, and transportation. Later, by the decision of the Soviet state, they were distributed in the regions of Aghdam, Lachin, Ayulakh, and Kalbajar in Azerbaijan. On December 10, 1947, they were transferred to a military base 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 8 hours of daily military training under the supervision of officers of the Republic of Azerbaijan. At the same time, they received four hours of Kurdish language lessons daily from some of their educated companions.

After the poor treatment of his companions by Jafar Bakirov, it was decided on August 29, 1948, to move the military camp from the Republic of Azerbaijan to the Chirchik community near Tashkent, the capital of the Republic of Uzbekistan, where they continued their military training.

In March 1949, he and his companions were distributed in groups by train to the villages of the Soviet Union and worked on collective farms (lands that people had received from the state and then gave a share to the government).

After much effort and sending several letters from General Barzani to Stalin, a letter finally reached Stalin in which Barzani described the pain and suffering of his companions. He immediately ordered the formation of a committee to investigate the situation of Barzani's companions, and the committee's final decision was to gather them all in the city of Vriviski. For this reason, the aforementioned went to the city of Vriviski in the Soviet Union in November 1951.

In 1958, the Republic of Iraq was established under the leadership of Abd al-Karim Qasim. The aforementioned returned to Kurdistan on April 16, 1959, with his companions on the ship Girozya via the port of Basra in the south of the Republic of Iraq.

In 1961, he participated in the September Revolution and participated in the Battle of Zawita Valley (1961), the Battle of Piris Mountain and Dare Nergizine (1963), and the Battle of Geru Kuje (1964). He was the financial and administrative officer in the Kawa and Helgurd forces. In November 1969, he was martyred in the Sengeser area and was buried in the Haji Omaran cemetery.

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