Biography

Mahmud Abdulrahman Mala Omar was born in 1920 in the village of Babke, Shirwan Mazn district, Mergasor district, Erbil province. He was married and was martyred in 1961 in the battle of Gali Zawita.

Struggle Record

In 1943, after the return of Mulla Mustafa Barzani from Sulaymaniyah to the Barzan region and the outbreak of the Second Barzan Revolution (1943-1945), he joined the ranks of the revolutionary army and participated in the battles to capture the police stations in the Barzan region. In 1945, after the collapse of the revolution, he was displaced along with the Barzani fighters and families to East Kurdistan (Iran). After the establishment of the Republic of Kurdistan in Mahabad at the beginning of 1946, he became a Peshmerga of the Republic in the Barzan force. After the fall of the Republic of Kurdistan in December 1946, along with the revolutionary Barzan army led by General Mustafa Barzani, after several battles and struggles against the Imperial Iranian Army, he returned to South Kurdistan through the Nazdardagh region at the Iran-Iraq-Turkey border triangle and settled in the ranks of the army in the Mizuri tribal region.

On May 22, 1947, he accompanied General Mustafa Barzani towards the Soviet Union and participated in the Battle of Gali Kotol (Qotur) and the Battle of 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, 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 compound 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. 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, they were given eight hours of military training daily. 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 Barzani 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, along with his companions, they were distributed in groups and squads by train among the collective villages of the Soviet Union and worked in the Kolkhoz fields (lands that people rented from the government and later gave back the government's share).

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 the Barzani companions. Eventually, the committee's decision was that they should all be gathered in the city of Vrevsky, so Mahmud Abdulrahman went to the city of Vrevsky in the Soviet Union in November 1951.

  In 1958, the Republic of Iraq was established under the presidency of Abdul Karim Qasim, and Mahmud Abdulrahman returned to Kurdistan on April 16, 1959, with his companions on the ship Gruzia via the port of Basra in the south of the Republic of Iraq.

In the Year 1961, he joined the Peshmerga Forces of the Aylul Revolution and became a Peshmerga and participated in its battles.

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