Hussein Mirxan Ghazali, known as Hso Mirxan Zhazhuki, was born in 1932 in the village of Zhazhuki, affiliated with the Gweretu sub-district in the Mergasor district of Erbil province. His father, Mirxan Ghazali, participated in the first Barzani revolution in 1932. Hso Mirxan studied in the Soviet Union and in 1959 was able to obtain a diploma in the agriculture department, and in the same year, after returning from the Soviet Union, he was employed as an official in the Mosul Agriculture Department. He knew Kurdish, Persian, Arabic, and Russian.
Struggle RecordOn October 11, 1945, after the collapse of the second Barzani revolution, he went with his family to Eastern Kurdistan. On March 31, 1946, he was a Peshmerga in the Barzan 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. After the collapse of the Republic, he was among those Peshmerga who returned to the Shirwan and Muzuri region on April 19, 1947, through the Khwakurk and Barazgar plain via the territory of Northern Kurdistan.
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 of staying or going to the Soviet Union. There, all his companions decided to continue and go to the Soviet Union. On May 23, 1947, he accompanied General Mustafa Barzani towards the Soviet Union and participated in the Battle of 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, 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 complex surrounded by barbed wire, guarded by a group of soldiers, and 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 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 officers of the Republic of Azerbaijan, were given eight hours of military training daily. At the same time, for four hours a day, some of their companions who were literate taught them the Kurdish language.
After the bad treatment of the companions by Jafar Bagirov, it was decided to move the military camp on August 29, 1948, from the Republic of Azerbaijan to the Charchuk complex 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 to 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 Vrevitsk, so he went to the city of Vrevitsk in the Soviet Union in November 1951.
In 1958, the Republic of Iraq was established under the presidency of Abdul Karim Qasim, and he returned to Kurdistan on April 16, 1959, with his companions on the ship Georgia via the port of Basra in the south of the Republic of Iraq.
In 1961, he participated in the Aylul Revolution and in December of that year was made commander of the Sari Sirk and Tanirka axis. In 1961 and 1962, he participated in most of the battles in the Badinan region. On October 21, 1961, he accompanied Mela Mustafa Barzani to reorganize the Peshmerga forces in the village of Sina in the Nerwa region. From December 7 to 12 of the same year, he participated in the Battle of Geli Zawita and was in the third axis. In 1963, he was a force commander in the Muzurian region, participated in the Battle of Sari Akre on June 14-15, was a sector commander, and was wounded in that battle. On October 4, 1964, to reorganize the Peshmerga forces, he was made commander of the Kawa Force in the Pshdar region, which was affiliated with the Second Army of Erbil. In 1969, he participated in the Battle of the Valley of the Martyrs.
On November 3, 1971, by the order of Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr, Chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council, he was given the rank of police captain and became the commander of the Twelfth Border Guard Regiment in Qaladze. In 1974, he returned to his previous responsibility as commander of the Kawa Force in Qaladze.
In 1975, after the collapse of the Aylul Revolution he went as a refugee to the Kingdom of Iran and settled in the Rabet complex in the Sardasht region. Later, he went to the Zewa complex for two months, spent a month in the Jahrom complex, and lived in the city of Yazd for four years. However, after the victory of the Iranian people's revolution in 1979, he returned to Eastern Kurdistan and settled in the city of Naghadeh. In the same year, he participated in the Gulan Revolution and was a force commander.
On November 11, 1980, he participated in the Battle of Haji Omaran and was wounded in this battle. Later, he went to the Pshdar and Bitwen region. In 1983, he participated in the Battle of the Valley of the Martyrs. On September 1 of the same year, he participated in the Battle of Qandil and was martyred in that battle in the Qarnaga and Pusht Ashan region.
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