Biography

Mela Rash Mazni was born in 1925 in the village of Mazni, which belongs to the Mazni sub-district in the Mergasor district of Erbil province. He was a soldier in Rawanduz for a year and a half. Because he was a Kurd, he was detained in the Rawanduz prison for eighteen months, and together with eighteen others, they were able to escape from prison. He studied in the Soviet Union and obtained a degree in Agricultural Mechanical Engineering. He married twice while in the Soviet Union; his first wife was named Amina and his second wife was named Lida Alexandrovich. After returning from the Soviet Union, Mela Rash was employed as a civil servant in Mosul in 1959 and was later transferred to the Erbil Agriculture Department. In 1975, after the collapse of the Aylul Revolution , he went to the Kingdom of Iran as a refugee. Initially, he was in the Ziveh complex, then he was moved to Mashhad, and later to Qazvin. In June 1993, he returned to Southern Kurdistan and settled in the Mazni sub-district.

 He had proficiency in the Kurdish, Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and Russian languages. He passed away on December 6, 2008, in the village of Mazni and was buried there.

Struggle Record

In 1943, in the village of Zhazhuk, he joined the ranks of the Second Barzan Revolution. He participated in the battles of Badlian and Zhazhuk, and on October 2, of the same year, he participated in the capture of the Shanadari police station.

 On August 19, 1945, by order of the Iraqi military tribunal, all his movable and immovable property and assets were seized. On September 5, 1945, he participated in the capture of the Maidan Moriki police station. After the collapse of the Second Barzan Revolution, on October 11, 1945, he went to Eastern Kurdistan. On March 31, 1946, he became a Peshmerga in the Barzan force affiliated with the army of the Republic of Kurdistan in Mahabad. After the collapse of the Republic of Kurdistan, on March 3, 1947, he participated in the battle of Nalos. On March 13-14, 1947, he participated in the battle of Gujar, and on March 19, he participated in the battle of Naghadeh and Oshnavieh.

 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 heading 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 Qotur Valley 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, 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. 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 moved to a military camp on the Caspian Sea in Baku, the capital of the Republic of Azerbaijan. 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 learning the Kurdish language by some of their companions who were literate.

After the poor treatment of Barzani's 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, he and his companions were distributed in groups and squads by train to the collective villages of the Soviet Union, and they 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 sending several letters by General Barzani to Stalin, a letter finally reached Stalin in which Barzani described the hardships of his companions. He immediately decided to form a committee to investigate the situation of Barzani's companions, and the committee's decision was that they should all be gathered in the city of Vrevitski. Therefore, he went to the city of Vrevitski 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 according to both the third and seventh articles and paragraph (a) of the tenth article, and by implementing article (11) based on the amended Law No. 19 of 1959, he and his companions were granted 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 via the port of Basra in the south of the Republic of Iraq on the ship Gruzia. 

 In 1961, he participated in the Aylul Revolution. In 1963, he was displaced to the Mizuri region. In 1976, he participated in the Gulan Revolution and was a Sergeant. He participated in the battle of Sari Bardi. In June 1993, he returned to Kurdistan and was a Peshmerga in the social committee of the Dolemeri region.

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