Biography

Miran Mirxan Masih was born in 1925 in the village of Sarukani - Piran sub-district - Mergasor district - Erbil province. He was married, and in 1974, after returning from Haji Omaran, he froze to death in the snow in the Bazargir plain and passed away.

Struggle History

In 1943, after Mullah Mustafa Barzani returned 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 defeat of the revolution, he was displaced to Eastern Kurdistan (Iran) along with the Barzani fighters and families. 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 Barzan revolutionary army led by General Mustafa Barzani, after several battles and heroic deeds against the Imperial Iranian Army, he returned to Southern 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, 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 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 trained for eight hours of military drill daily. At the same time, for four hours a day, they were taught Kurdish language lessons by some of their companions who were literate.

After Jafar Baghirov's poor treatment of the Barzani companions, it was decided to move the military camp on August 29, 1948, from the Republic of Azerbaijan to the Charchuk community 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 on the collective farms (the 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 Miran Mirxan Masih 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 on April 16, 1959, Miran Mirxan Masih returned to Kurdistan with his companions by the ship Grozia via the port of Basra in the south of the Republic of Iraq.

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

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