Biography

Ibrahim Hassan Ibrahim, known as (Ibrahim Hassan) a Peshmerga and a Comrade of Barzani to the Soviet Union, was born in Year 1910 in the village of Bebil, participated in the Aylul Revolution, and held the position of (Sar-pal - Platoon Commander) in the ranks of the Peshmerga. He was martyred in Year 1961 on Mount Qalandar.

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Ibrahim Hassan Born in Year 1910 in the village of Bebil, which belongs to the Korto sub-district in the Mergasor district of Erbil Governorate. He married Gul Khadr before going to the Soviet Union, and they had a son (Hussein Ibrahim), born in 1941, and a daughter (Halima Ibrahim), born in 1942.   

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He was among those who accompanied General Mustafa Barzani and attended the meeting in the village of Arkosh on 15/5/1947, when he gave them the choice to stay or go to the Soviet Union. There, all his comrades decided to continue and head to the Soviet Union. On 23 May 1947, he accompanied General Mustafa Barzani to the Soviet Union. He participated in the battles of Qotur and the Maku Bridge, and after great hardship and extreme exhaustion, he crossed the Aras River on 18 June 1947, which is located on the border between Iran and the Soviet Union.

After their arrival in the Soviet Union on 19 June 1947, he and all his comrades were detained in the city of Nakhchivan in Azerbaijan for forty days in an open compound surrounded by barbed wire and guarded by soldiers. They were treated as prisoners of war in terms of food, clothing, and transportation. By a decision of the Soviet government, they were later distributed to the regions of Aghdam, Lachin, Yevlakh, and Kalbajar in the Republic of Azerbaijan. On 10 December 1947, they were moved to a camp on the Caspian Sea in the capital of the Azerbaijani Republic, Baku. On the 23rd of the same month, they received military uniforms and were receiving military training for eight hours daily under the supervision of officers from the Republic of Azerbaijan. At the same time, they were receiving lessons in learning the Kurdish language for four hours daily from some of their educated comrades.

After Jafar Baghirov's mistreatment of his comrades, Barzani decided to move his military group from Azerbaijan on 29 August 1948 to the Jarjok compound near the Uzbek capital, Tashkent, where they continued their military training.

In March 1949, he and his comrades were distributed in groups by train to collective villages in the Soviet Union and worked on Kolkhoz farms (land that people rented from the government and then paid a share to the government from it).

After great efforts and the sending of several letters from General Barzani to Stalin, Stalin finally received a letter in which Barzani spoke about the suffering of his comrades, and he immediately decided to form a committee to investigate the situation of Barzani's comrades. The committee's final decision was that they should be gathered in the city of Vrevsky, so he headed to the Soviet city of Vrevsky in November 1951.

After the 14 July 1958 revolution in Iraq and the return of General Mustafa Barzani, on 25 February 1959, a general amnesty included him and his comrades according to Articles (3) and (7) and Paragraph (A) of Article (10), and the implementation of Article (11) under Law No. (19) as amended for the year 1959.

On 16 April 1959, he returned to Kurdistan with his comrades aboard the ship Gruzia via the port of Basra in southern Iraq. He participated in the Aylul Revolution in Year 1961, and he held the position of (Sar-pal - Platoon Commander) and was martyred in the same year at Mount Qalandar.

Sources:

Hamid Gardi, Pukhtey Mezhunama, First Edition, (Erbil - Aras Printing and Publishing House - Ministry of Education Press - 2004)

  1. From the memoirs of the martyred commander Hasso Mirxan Zhazhoki, 62 Days with Barzani, The Barzanis' Going to the Soviet Union, First Edition (Erbil - Roshinbiri Press - 1997).
  2. Masoud Barzani, Barzani and the Kurdish Liberation Movement 1931-1958, (Duhok - Khabat Press - 1998).
  3. Archive of the Encyclopedia Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.
  4. Text of the General Amnesty Committee decision to rehabilitate the martyrs of the Barzan Revolution, Rizgari Magazine, Issue 3, 2, Al-Rabita Press, Baghdad, 1 April 1959.