Said Omar was born in 1910 in the village of Argosh, which belongs to the Shirwan Mazin sub-district in the Mergasor district of Erbil province. Before going to the Soviet Union, he was married to Hasna Muhammad Sharif, and they had two sons named Farhad Said and Fatah Said. In the Soviet Union, he married Nina, and they had a son named Rostam. He knew three languages: Kurdish, English, and Russian.
On July 31, 1983, during the Anfal operation against the Barzanis, he and his two sons, Farhad Said and Fatah Said, were forcibly disappeared by the Iraqi government in the Qushtapa complex.
Struggle RecordIn 1944, he joined the ranks of the Second Barzan Revolution and participated in most of the battles of that revolution. On August 19, 1945, by order of the Iraqi military martial court, all his movable and immovable property was seized. On October 11, 1945, after the defeat of the Second Barzan Revolution, he headed to Eastern Kurdistan. On March 31, 1946, he served as a Peshmerga in the Barzani force affiliated with the army of the Republic of Kurdistan in Mahabad and participated in the battles of the Saqqez front in the Republic of Kurdistan. He was among the Peshmerga who returned to the Shirwan and Mizuri region through the (Khwakurk and Barazgir plain) route on April 19, 1947, through the territory of Northern Kurdistan.
After their return, General Mustafa Barzani held a meeting with his companions on May 6, 1947, in the village of Argosh and gave them the choice to stay or go to the Soviet Union. There, all his companions decided to continue and go to the Soviet Union. On May 23, 1947, he accompanied General Mustafa Barzani toward the Soviet Union and participated in the Battle of 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, he and all his companions 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 as prisoners of war in terms of food, clothing, and movement. Later, by 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 were trained for eight hours daily under the supervision of officers of the Republic of Azerbaijan. At the same time, for four hours a day, they were taught the Kurdish language by some of their companions who were literate.
After the poor treatment of his companions by Jafar Bagirov, 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, he and his companions were distributed in groups and squads by train among the collective farms of the Soviet Union and worked on the Kolkhoz fields (lands that people rented from the government and later gave a share back to the government).
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 Barzani's companions. Eventually, the committee's decision was for them all to be gathered in the city of Vrevsky, so he went to the city of Vrevsky in the Soviet Union in November 1951.
After the July 14, 1958 revolution in Iraq and the return of General Mustafa Barzani, on February 25, 1959, and according to both the third and seventh articles and paragraph (A) of the tenth article, and by applying the eleventh article based on the amended Law No. 19 of 1959, he and his companions were granted a general amnesty.
In 1958, the Republic of Iraq was established under the presidency of Abdul Karim Qasim. On April 16, 1959, he and his companions returned to Kurdistan via the port of Basra in the south of the Republic of Iraq on the ship Gruzia.
He participated in the Aylul Revolution. In 1975, after the defeat of the Aylul Revolution he was forcibly displaced by the Iraqi government to southern Iraq and settled in Diwaniya province. In 1980, he was moved to the Qushtapa complex.
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