Biography

Shahin Ibrahim was born in 1929 in the village of Mamiski, affiliated with the Pirane sub-district in the Mergasor district of Erbil Governorate. After going to the Soviet Union, he studied there and received a bachelor's degree in agriculture. After his return from the Soviet Union in 1959, he was appointed as an employee in the Makhmur Agriculture Department, and later, due to the outbreak of the Aylul Revolution and his participation in it, he was separated from his employment. After the collapse, from 1976 to 1977, he was in the Rawanduz Agriculture Department, in 1978 his service was transferred to the Khalifan Agriculture Department, and in 1980 he was the deputy director of the Harir Complex Agriculture Department. He had proficiency in both Kurdish and Russian languages.

Struggle Record

On October 11, 1945, after the collapse of the second Barzan revolution, he headed to Eastern Kurdistan. On March 31, 1946, he became a Peshmerga in the Barzani force affiliated with the army of the Republic of Kurdistan in Mahabad. On April 29, he participated in the Battle of Qarawa in the Saqqez region, and on May 3, he participated in the Battle of Malqarni.

 After the collapse of the Republic of Kurdistan, on March 3, 1947, he participated in the Battle of Nalos, and on March 19 of the same year, he participated in the Battle of Naqada and Oshnavieh. He was among the Peshmerga who returned to the Shirwan and Mazuri region through the Khwakurk and Barazgir plain via the territory of Northern Kurdistan on April 19, 1947.

After their return, General Mustafa Barzani held a meeting with his companions on May 15, 1947, in the village of Argosh and gave them the choice of staying or going to the Soviet Union. There, all the companions decided to continue and go to the Soviet Union. On May 23, 1947, he accompanied General Mustafa Barzani towards the Soviet Union and participated in the Battle of Gali 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, towards 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. 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 transferred 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 of military exercises daily under the supervision of the officers of the Republic of Azerbaijan. At the same time, for four hours a day, they were taught lessons in learning 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, and they continued their military training there. 

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 the government's share back). 

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 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, according to both the third and seventh articles and paragraph (a) of the tenth article, and by applying Article (11) 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 Abd al-Karim Qasim. On April 16, 1959, he and his companions returned to Kurdistan by the ship Grozia via the port of Basra in the south of the Republic of Iraq.  

In the Year 1961, he participated in the Aylul Revolution and was a platoon leader and participated in the battles. On July 31, 1983, during the Anfal operation of the Barzanis, he was disappeared by the Iraqi government in the Harir complex.

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