Biography

Ebdullah Hesen Ebdullah was born in 1910 in the village of Avedor, spoke Kurdish and Russian, and passed away in 1987 in the Quştepe forced settlement in Erbil province.

Work History

Ebdullah Hesen Ebdullah, along with his son Cemîl Ebdullah, participated in the march towards the Soviet Union on May 23, 1947, and was responsible for the section and participated in the route battles, participated in the Qitur Valley battle and the Mako bridge battle, and after many hardships and difficulties, on June 18, 1947, he crossed the Aras River on the border of Iran and the Soviet Union into the Soviet Union.

After their arrival in the Soviet Union, on June 19, 1947, he and all his comrades were placed in a closed camp in the city of Nakhchivan in the Republic of Azerbaijan, surrounded by barbed wire for forty days, guarded by a group of soldiers, and treated like prisoners of war in terms of food, clothing, and transportation. Later, by the decision of the Soviet state, they were distributed in Azerbaijan in the regions of Aghdam, Lachin, Ayulax, and Kalbajar. 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 comrades.

After the bad treatment of Cefer Bakirov towards his comrades, it was decided on August 29, 1948, to move the military camp from the Republic of Azerbaijan to the Çirçuk settlement near Tashkent, the capital of the Republic of Uzbekistan, and they continued their military training there.

In March 1949, he and his comrades 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, finally a letter reached Stalin in which Barzani described the pain and suffering of his comrades, and he immediately gave the order to form a committee to investigate the situation of Barzani's comrades, and finally the committee's decision was to gather them all in the city of Vriviski, therefore, the aforementioned went to the city of Vriviski 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 articles 3 and 7 and paragraph (a) of article 10 and article 11 of the 1959 amendment law, a general amnesty was granted to him and his comrades.

In 1958, the Republic of Iraq was established under the leadership of Abd al-Karim Qasim, Ebdullah Dawud Husên returned to Kurdistan on April 16, 1959, with his comrades via the Girozya ship through the port of Basra in the south of the Republic of Iraq. In 1975, after the collapse of September Revolution, he was transferred to the Quştepe forced settlement in Erbil.

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