Struggle Record

After the fall of the Republic of Kurdistan in Mahabad and the return of Mustafa Barzani from Eastern Kurdistan to Southern Kurdistan, he was one of the (565) people who returned to the Shirwan and Mizuri region on April 19, 1947, via (Xwakurk and the Barazgir plain) within the territory of Turkish Kurdistan.

After their return, General Mustafa Barzani held a meeting with his companions on May 6, 1947, in the village of Argush and gave them the choice to stay or go towards the Soviet Union. There, all his companions decided to leave, so on May 23, 1947, he accompanied General Mustafa Barzani towards the Soviet Union and participated in the battles of the route. 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, 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 complex 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, Ayulakh, and Kalbajar in the Republic of Azerbaijan. Later, on December 10, 1947, they were moved to a military camp on the Caspian Sea in Baku, the Republic of Azerbaijan, and on the 23rd of the same month, they were given military uniforms and underwent eight hours of military training daily under the supervision of officers of the Republic of Azerbaijan. 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 mistreatment 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 complex 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 in 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 Mustafa Barzani to Stalin, a letter finally reached Stalin in which Mustafa Barzani described the hardships of his companions. He immediately ordered the formation of a committee to investigate the situation of the companions of Mustafa Barzani, and the committee's final decision was that they should all be gathered in the city of Vrevitsk. Therefore, he went to the city of Vrevitsk in the Soviet Union in November 1951.

On February 25, 1959, according to both the third and seventh articles and paragraph (a) of the tenth article, and by working with the eleventh article 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 leadership of Abd al-Karim Qasim. On April 16, 1959, along with his companions, he returned to Kurdistan via the port of Basra in the south of the Republic of Iraq on the ship Gruzia. 

In the Year 1962, he participated in the Aylul Revolution and passed away in 1969 in the village of Safti.

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

  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 Commander Martyr Haso Mirxan Zhazhoki, 62 Days with Mustafa Barzani: The Departure of the Barzanis to the Soviet Union, First Edition (Erbil - Roshinbiri Printing House - 1997).
  4. Masoud Barzani, Mustafa Barzani and the Kurdish Liberation Movement 1931-1958, (Duhok - Khabat Printing House - 1998).
  5. Archive of the Encyclopedia Committee, Ibrahim Qurtas Ahmed Rashid form, dated November 1, 2018 - Pirmam.
  6. 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.