Biography

Ebdullah Îsa was born in 1920 in the village of Shetne in the Mazne district, which is part of the Mergasor district of Erbil Governorate; he married Kaysina Nuriya Said Ahmed in the Soviet Union.

Work History

Ebdullah Îsa went to the Soviet Union with General Mustafa Barzani on May 23, 1947, and participated in the Qitur Valley battle and the Mako Bridge battle, and after many hardships, he crossed the Aras River on the border between Iran and the Soviet Union into 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, which was 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, Ayulax, 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 bad 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 later 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 companions, and he immediately ordered the formation of a committee to investigate the situation of Barzani's companions, and in the end, 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.

In 1958, the government of the Republic of Iraq was established under the leadership of Abd al-Karim Qasim; on April 16, 1959, he and his companions crossed the Black Sea via the port of Odessa on the ship Girozya, came through the Bosphorus to the Mediterranean Sea, and via the Suez Canal and the Red Sea, arrived at the port of Basra in the south of the Republic of Iraq on April 16, 1959, where he was welcomed as a hero by the Kurdish and Arab people and subsequently returned to Kurdistan.

In September Revolution he participated and took part in battles. He was executed by hanging in Sulaymaniyah on December 25, 1981.

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