Biography

Haji Ali Jibrail was born in 1927 in the village of Dori, belonging to the Goreto sub-district in the Mergasor district of Erbil Governorate. He married twice; the first time to Wariya Abdullah Nazir, with whom he had three sons and two daughters named Hassan, Hussein, Yasin, Gulizar, and Gulnar, and the second time to Asma Ibrahim Yusuf, with whom he had two sons and three daughters named Shukri, Shakir, Galawizh, Shajihan, and Nafiya. He studied in the Soviet Union and was admitted to Tashkent University on February 15, 1954. He received his diploma on March 29, 1959. He passed away in 1981 in the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Struggle Record

 On May 23, 1947, he was a companion of General Mustafa Barzani towards the Soviet Union and participated in the battles of the route towards the Soviet Union. 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 their arrival 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 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, Ayolakh, and Kalbajar in the Republic of Azerbaijan. On December 10, 1947, they were transferred 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, were given eight hours of military training daily. 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 to move the military camp 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 among the collective villages of the Soviet Union and worked on the collective farms (the lands that people rented from the government and later gave back the government's share).

After much effort and the sending of several letters by General 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 Vriviski, so he 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, and according to both the third and seventh articles and paragraph (A) of the tenth article and the implementation of article (11) based on the amended Law No. 19 of 1959, he and his companions were covered by the general amnesty.

In 1958, the Republic of Iraq was established under the presidency of Abd al-Karim Qasim, and on April 16, 1959, he returned to Kurdistan with his companions via the ship Grozia through the port of Basra in the south of the Republic of Iraq.

 He participated in the Aylul Revolution and in 1975, after the collapse of the Aylul Revolution, he went to the country of Iran as a refugee. He passed away in 1981 in the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Sources:

  1. Archive of the Encyclopedia Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.

  2. Hamid Gardi, Summary of History, First Edition, (Erbil - Aras Printing and Publishing House - Ministry of Education Printing House - 2004).
  3. From the memoirs of the martyr commander Haso Mirxan Zhazhoki, 62 Days with Barzani: The Going of the Barzanis to the Soviet Union, First Edition, (Erbil - Rewshanbiri Printing House - 1997).
  4. Masoud Barzani, Barzani and the Kurdish Liberation Movement 1931-1958, (Duhok - Khabat Printing House - 1998).
  5. Text of the General Amnesty Committee decision to restore the reputation of the martyrs of the Barzan revolution, Rizgari Magazine, Issue 3, 2, Al-Rabita Printing House, Baghdad, April 1, 1959.
  6. Archive of the Encyclopedia Committee, Haji Ali Jibrail Abdulrahman form, dated November 1, 2018 - Pirmam.