Born Piro Chicho Aziz in the year 1922 in the village of Kuwezi, belonging to the Shirwan Mazin sub-district in the Mergasor district of Erbil Governorate. He married in the Soviet Union to Sakhiba Sakhaddin and they had a daughter (Zalmir Piro) in the year 1955. After his return from the Soviet Union in 1959, he was appointed as an employee at the Mosul Sugar Factory. He moved his family during the Aylul Revolution to the village of Kuwezi. In the year 1978, he was deported to the Baharka complex by the Ba'athist regime and resided in the (Basta Byaza) neighborhood in Erbil. He was then appointed as an employee in the Department of Agriculture. In the year 1991, he sought refuge in the Islamic Republic of Iran, after which he returned to South Kurdistan. In 1996, he left his home due to the civil war and they returned to Baharka. He was proficient in both the Kurdish and Russian languages. He died in Baharka on November 15, 2016, and was buried there.
Struggle PagesHe joined the ranks of the Second Revolution of Barzan and participated in all the battles, and was wounded twice. On August 19, 1945, all his movable and immovable property was confiscated by order of the Iraqi Military Court. On November 11, 1945, after the setback of the Second Revolution of Barzan, he crossed with Mustafa Barzani and his comrades into East Kurdistan. After the establishment of the Republic of Kurdistan in Mahabad, on March 31, 1946, he defended the Republic within the Barzan force and participated in the battles of the Saqqez front.
After the collapse of the Republic of Kurdistan in Mahabad and the return of Barzani from East Kurdistan to South Kurdistan, he participated in the battles of Naghadeh and Oshnavieh in East Kurdistan. He was among his Peshmerga comrades who returned to the Shirwan and Mizuri regions on 19/4/1947 via (Khwakurk and the Barazgara plain) crossing the lands of North Kurdistan.
After their return, General Mustafa Barzani held a meeting with his comrades in the village of Arkush on 15/5/1947 and gave them the choice to stay or go to the Soviet Union. There, all his comrades decided to continue and head to the Soviet Union. On May 23, 1947, he accompanied General Mustafa Barzani to the Soviet Union. He participated in the battles of Qotur and the Maku Bridge, and after great hardship and severe exhaustion, he crossed the Aras River on June 18, 1947, which is located on the border between Iran and the Soviet Union.
After their arrival in the Soviet Union, on June 19, 1947, he and all his comrades were detained in the city of Nakhchivan in the Republic of Azerbaijan for forty days in an open compound surrounded by barbed wire guarded by soldiers. They were treated as prisoners of war in terms of food, clothing, and transportation. By a decision of the Soviet government, they were later distributed to the regions of Aghdam, Lachin, Yevlakh, and Kalbajar in the Republic of Azerbaijan. On December 10, 1947, they were moved to a camp on the Caspian Sea in the capital of the Azerbaijani Republic, Baku. On the 23rd of the same month, they received military uniforms and were receiving military training for eight hours daily under the supervision of officers from the Republic of Azerbaijan. At the same time, they were receiving lessons in learning the Kurdish language for four hours daily from some of their educated comrades.
After the mistreatment of his comrades by Jafar Baghirov, Barzani decided to move his military group from Azerbaijan on August 29, 1948, to the Jarjuk complex near the Uzbek capital, Tashkent, where they continued their military training.
In March 1949, he and his comrades were distributed in groups by train to collective villages in the Soviet Union and worked on Kolkhoz farms (land that people would rent from the government and then pay a share to the government from it).
After great efforts and sending several letters from General Barzani to Stalin, Stalin finally received a letter in which Barzani spoke about the suffering of his comrades, and he immediately decided to form a committee to investigate the situation of Barzani's comrades. The committee's final decision was that they should be gathered in the city of Vrevsky, so he headed in November 1951 to the Soviet city of Vrevsky.
After the July 14, 1958 revolution in Iraq and the return of General Mustafa Barzani, on February 25, 1959, he and his comrades were included in the general amnesty according to Articles (3) and (7) and Paragraph (A) of Article (10) and the implementation of Article (11) under Law No. (19) as amended for the year 1959.
In the year 1958, the Republic of Iraq was established under the leadership of Abd al-Karim Qasim. He returned with his comrades on April 16, 1959, to Kurdistan aboard the ship Gruzia via the port of Basra in the south of the Republic of Iraq.
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