Biography

Nabi Hassan Abdullah, known as Nabi Sar Asn, was born in 1921 in the village of Khelan, Mazne sub-district - Mergasor district of Erbil province.

Struggle Record

In 1943, after Mullah Mustafa Barzani returned from Sulaymaniyah to the Barzan region and ignited the Second Barzan Revolution, 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 Second Barzan Revolution (1943- 1945), he was displaced along with the fighters and Barzani families to Eastern 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, he, along with the Barzan revolutionary army led by General Mustafa Barzani, after several battles and struggles against the Imperial Iranian Army, returned to Southern Kurdistan through the Nazdardagh area at the border triangle of Iran, Iraq, and Turkey, and settled in the ranks of the army in the Mizuri tribe area.

On May 6, 1947, after the historic decision of General Mustafa Barzani at the Argosh meeting not to surrender to the Iraqi government and to head towards the Soviet Union, he, along with the Barzan revolutionary army of more than five hundred fighters and led by General Mustafa Barzani, decided to leave and became one of Barzani's companions to the Soviet Union. During 28 days of continuous marching through the rugged nature of the road and military confrontations with the armies of the three countries of Iraq, Turkey, and Iran, and after their success in the famous Battle of the Shut Plain and crossing the Qizildagh bridge in Maku, he finally crossed the Aras River and the border of the Soviet Union on June 18, along with the Barzani fighters.

After crossing the border, he was transferred by the Soviets along with all the Barzani fighters as prisoners of war to the city of Nakhchivan in the Republic of Azerbaijan. After Moscow decided to accept the Barzanis as refugees and after the agreement between General Mustafa Barzani and Jafar Baghirov, the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, he was transferred along with all the Barzani fighters to a military camp on the Caspian Sea near Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, and was subjected to intensive military training by Azerbaijani officers, and there they were also taught to read and write the Kurdish language by Kurdish officers.

After the deterioration of the relationship between General Mustafa Barzani and Jafar Baghirov and the emergence of Baghirov's bad intentions and suspicion towards the Barzanis, he was transferred along with all the Barzani fighters on August 29, 1948, from the Republic of Azerbaijan to the Charchuk complex in the Republic of Uzbekistan, where he was subjected to military training for a second time on a temporary basis.

In March 1949, after the conspiracies of Baghirov and Beria, Stalin's assistant, the Barzani fighters were separated from each other and distributed in groups by train to the villages and collective farms (Kolkhozes) of the Republic of Uzbekistan, and to earn their living, they were subjected to forced labor and hard daily work like German prisoners.

After much effort and sending several letters by General Mustafa Barzani to the Kremlin Palace and the authorities of the Soviet Union, finally, a letter from Barzani reached Stalin, the leader of the Soviet Union. After the arrival of Barzani's letter, Stalin decided to form a committee to investigate the situation of the Barzanis, and finally, in 1951, all the Barzanis were gathered together again and settled in the city of Vrevsky on the Black Sea in today's southern Russia.

After 11 years of staying in the Soviet Union, in 1958, the monarchy in Iraq was overthrown and the country's administrative system was established as a republic led by Abdul Karim Qasim, and they took power in Iraq. With the coming to power of the republicans, the way for the return of the Barzanis from the Soviet Union was opened, and on April 16, 1959, he returned to Southern Kurdistan with all the Barzani fighters aboard the ship Gruziya via the port of Basra.

In 1961, after the deterioration of the relationship between Barzani and Abdul Karim Qasim and the government's reneging on the promises it had made to the Kurds, the Kurdish national revolution broke out, and Nabi Hassan Abdullah joined the ranks of the Peshmerga Forces and participated in the battles, and was martyred in the Battle of Hafiz Bridge on May 13, 1962.

Sources:

1- Dengi Peshmerga Magazine, Issue 124, July 2008, The Beginning of the Flame of the Great Aylul Revolution and Some Memories, Part Two, prepared by Wali Zubair Hostani, pp. 29-30.

2- Payami Aylul Magazine, Issue 21, July 2011, A special interview with a fighter and struggler of the Barzan revolutions, the Mahabad Republic, and the Great Aylul and Gulan revolutions (Ahmed Mustafa Kanyelnji), Interviewer: Khoshawi Ali Bapir, p. 31.

3- Payami Aylul Magazine, Issue 22, October 2011, Muhammad Amin Mirkhani Mergasori, a fighter of the Barzan revolutions, a defender of Mahabad, a hero of the march towards Russia, and a leader of the Great Aylul Revolution, p. 3.

4- Shawkat Sheikh Yazdin, Golden Jubilee of the Peshmerga, (Pirmam - Khabat Press - 1996), p. 38.