Hassan Mala Muhammad was born in 1925 in the Mergasor district of Erbil province. In the Soviet Union, he married Galia Yaqub Musa, and they had a son named Ali who was born in 1952. Hassan Mala Muhammad was appointed as an employee in the Kirkuk Agriculture Department in 1959 and was later transferred to the Erbil Agriculture Department. He passed away on July 22, 2006, in Mergasor and was buried there.
Struggle RecordIn 1943, he was one of the individuals wanted by the Iraq government who was laying the groundwork for the outbreak of the Barzan Revolution and the return of the Barzani family to the Barzan region, who had been exiled and were residing in Sulaymaniyah at that time. In 1943, he joined the ranks of the Second Barzan Revolution. On November 10 of the same year, he participated in the capture of the Mazne police station. For this reason, on August 19, 1945, by order of the Iraqi military tribunal, all his movable and immovable property was seized.
On October 11, 1945, following the defeat of the Second Barzan Revolution, along with Mustafa Barzani and his companions, he crossed into Eastern Kurdistan. After the establishment of the Republic of Kurdistan in Mahabad, on March 31, 1946, he defended the Republic within the framework of the Barzan force.
On April 29, 1946, he participated in the Battle of Qarawa in the Saqqez region. He was also among the Peshmerga who returned to the Shirwan and Mazuri region on April 19, 1947, through the Khwakurk and Barazgir plain route via the territory of Northern Kurdistan.
On May 23, 1947, along with his two brothers named (Muhammad Mala Muhammad and Rasul Mala Muhammad), he accompanied General Mustafa Barzani towards the Soviet Union and participated in the Battle of Gali Qotur and the Battle of the Maku Bridge. After much hardship and fatigue, on June 18, 1947, he crossed the Aras River, which is located on the border between Iran and the Soviet Union, towards the Soviet Union.
After arriving in the Soviet Union, on June 19, 1947, along with all his companions, they were placed in an open-air compound surrounded by barbed wire in the city of Nakhchivan in the Republic of Azerbaijan for forty days. 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 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, they were taught the Kurdish language for four hours daily by some of their companions who were literate.
After the poor treatment of his companions by Jafar Bagirov, 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 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 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 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 that they should all be gathered in the city of Vrevsky, so the aforementioned person went to the city of Vrevsky 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 granted a general amnesty.
In 1958, the Republic of Iraq was established under the presidency of Abdul Karim Qasim. On April 16, 1959, he returned to Kurdistan with his companions by the ship Grozia via the port of Basra in the south of the Republic of Iraq.
Hassan Mala Muhammad participated in the Aylul Revolution and participated in the battles of Zozik, Handren (1966) and Sari Akre. In 1975, after the defeat of the Aylul Revolution, he went to Iran as a refugee, and in 1998, he returned to Kurdistan.
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