Biography

Musa Beg Oghuz Beg Zulfiqar Beg Gardi was born in 1927 in the village of Zarn in the Shemdinan district of Hakkari province. He was married and had one daughter.

Struggle Record

In 1943, he joined the Second Barzan Revolution and was one of the fighters of the Barzan forces in the Republic of Kurdistan in Mahabad. He participated in several battles and epics, including the fierce battle of Saqqez, and later went to Sardasht and Baneh, where he participated in several battles in that region. Later, he returned to Tergever and Mergever under the leadership of the immortal Barzani and participated in the battles of Oshnavieh, Naqadeh, and the Lajan plain.

On May 22, 1947, he accompanied General Mustafa Barzani towards the Soviet Union and participated in the Battle of Kotol (Qotur) and the Battle of the 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 moved 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 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 Kurdish language lessons by some of their companions who were literate.

After the bad treatment of Barzani's companions by Jafar Bagirov, 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, finally a letter reached Stalin in which Barzani described the hardships of his companions, and he immediately decided to form a committee to investigate the situation of Barzani's companions. Eventually, the committee's decision was that they should all be gathered in the city of Vrevsky, so Musa Beg 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, Musa Beg, along with his companions, returned to Kurdistan via the port of Basra in the south of the Republic of Iraq on the ship Grozia.

In 1961, he joined the Peshmerga forces of the Aylul Revolution and at the beginning of the reignition of the war between the Iraqi government and the revolution, the regime attacked the region, and he was martyred in 1961 in Garwa Bira in the Dashti Barazgari area of the Sidakan district by Iraqi traitors and mercenaries.

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