Biography

Mustafa Omar Yasin was born in the Year 1927 in the village of Safti, affiliated with the Barzan sub-district, Mergasor district, Erbil province. He was married and had five sons and four daughters. In the Year 1975, after the collapse of the Aylul Revolution he became a refugee in the Country of Iran. In the Year 1991, after the Uprising, he returned to Southern Kurdistan. In the Year 1996, he passed away in the Khabat district and was buried in the Khabat cemetery.

Struggle Record

In the Year 1943, he joined the Second Barzan Revolution and was one of the fighters of the Barzan forces in the Republic of Kurdistan in Mahabad, and participated in the battles against the Iranian army's attacks on the Republic.

On May 22, 1947, he accompanied General Mustafa Barzani towards the Soviet Union and participated in the Battle of the Qotur Valley 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 complex surrounded by barbed wire, 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, 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 bad treatment of Jafar Bagirov towards Barzani's companions, 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 fields (lands that people rented from the government and later returned 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 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 Vrevsky, so  Mustafa Omar Yasin went to the city of Vrevsky in the Soviet Union in November 1951.

In the Year 1958, the Republic of Iraq was established under the presidency of Abd al-Karim Qasim, Mustafa Omar Yasin returned to Kurdistan on April 16, 1959, with his companions via the Grozia ship through 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 the battles. In the Year 1961, he joined the Peshmerga Forces of the Gulan Revolution and became a Peshmerga.

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