Hso Faqe Ahmed was born in 1925 in the village of Babke, affiliated with the Piran sub-district in the Mergasor district of Erbil province. On June 21, 1932, he and his family became refugees in the Republic of Turkey. In 1952, he was admitted to the University of Tashkent. He married twice; he had two daughters from his first wife, and later he married Natalia Sergeyevna Radion. In 1959, he became a teacher at the University of Baghdad. On November 5, 1960, he accompanied the immortal Barzani to the Soviet Union to participate in the anniversary of the October Revolution, which was organized by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Through great effort and endeavor, the immortal Barzani was admitted to the academy for doctoral studies (Nauka), which was specialized in academic learning in the fields of sociology and culture. He continued his studies and was able to obtain a doctorate degree. After the March 11, 1970 agreement, he became a teacher at the University of Sulaymaniyah in Qaladze. In 1976, he was appointed as an employee in the Department of Education in the city of Baghdad. On July 31, 1983, during the Anfal operation of the Barzanis, he was forcibly disappeared by the Iraqi government in Baghdad.
Struggle RecordIn 1943, he joined the ranks of the Second Barzan Revolution. On October 2, 1943, he participated in the capture of the Shanadar police station, and on October 12 of the same year, he participated in the capture of the Kherazok police station, and later the Kani-Rash police station.
On August 19, 1945, by order of the Iraqi military tribunal, all his movable and immovable property was seized. On September 5 of the same year, he participated in the capture of the Meydan Morik police station. On October 11, 1945, after the collapse of the Second Barzan Revolution, he and his family headed to Eastern Kurdistan.
On March 31, 1946, he served as a Peshmerga in the Barzani force affiliated with the army of the Republic of Kurdistan in Mahabad and participated in the battles of the Saqqez front in the Republic of Kurdistan. On April 29 of the same year, he participated in the battle of Saqqez, and on March 3, 1947, he participated in the battle of Nalos. He was among the Peshmerga who returned to the Shirwan and Mazuri region through the territory of Northern Kurdistan on April 19, 1947 (via Khwakurk and the Barazgar plain).
After their return, General Mustafa Barzani held a meeting with his companions on May 6, 1947, in the village of Argosh and gave them the choice to stay or head towards the Soviet Union. There, all the companions decided to continue and head towards the Soviet Union. On May 23, 1947, he accompanied General Mustafa Barzani towards the Soviet Union and participated in the battle of the Qotur valley 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, into the Soviet Union.
After arriving in the Soviet Union, on June 19, 1947, he and all his companions 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 as 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 moved 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 daily for four hours 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, he and his companions 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 the government's share back).
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, and he immediately decided to form 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 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 in accordance with 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 a general amnesty.
In 1958, the Republic of Iraq was established under the presidency of Abdul Karim Qasim. On April 16, 1959, he and his companions returned to Kurdistan by the ship Gruzia via the port of Basra in the south of the Republic of Iraq.
From 1962 to 1964, he participated in the Aylul Revolution. In 1974, in the village of Zinoi Shekhi, he was the supervisor of the sixth cadre training course and a teacher of international relations. In 1975, after the collapse of the Aylul Revolution , he went to the Kingdom of Iran as a refugee, and in 1976, he returned to Kurdistan. On July 31, 1983, during the Anfal operation of the Barzanis, he was forcibly disappeared by the Iraqi government in Baghdad.
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