Biography

He was born in 1920 in the Mergasor district of Erbil province. After going to the Soviet Union, he was accepted into the Teachers' Institute of Tashkent University in 1952. Later, he studied mechanics for two years in the city of Roso. While in the Soviet Union, he married Valiya Mikhailov, and they had a son named Hasan Siyamend. He was a Russian language teacher at the University of Baghdad and provided medical treatment to Iraqi officers at the military college in Baghdad.

Career

On May 22, 1947, along with General Mustafa Barzani he went toward the Soviet Union and participated in the Battle of Qitur Valley and the Battle of Mako Bridge. After many hardships and difficulties, on June 18, 1947, he crossed the Aras River on the border between Iran and the Soviet Union to enter the Soviet Union.

After their arrival in the Soviet Union, on June 19, 1947, he and all his companions were placed in a closed camp in the city of Nakhchivan in the Republic of Azerbaijan for forty days, which was 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 transportation. Later, by the decision of the Soviet state, they were distributed in Azerbaijan to the regions of Aghdam, Lachin, Ayulakh, and Kalbajar. On December 10, 1947, they were transferred to a military base 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 underwent 8 hours of military training daily under the supervision of officers of the Republic of Azerbaijan. At the same time, they received four hours of Kurdish language lessons daily from some of their educated companions.

After the poor treatment of his companions by Jafar Bakirov, it was decided on August 29, 1948, to move the military camp from the Republic of Azerbaijan to the Chirchik community 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 by train to the villages of the Soviet Union and worked on collective farms (lands that people had received from the state and then gave a share to the government).

After much effort and sending several letters from General Barzani to Stalin, a letter finally reached Stalin in which Barzani described the pain and suffering of his companions. He immediately ordered the formation of a committee to investigate the situation of Barzani's companions, and the committee's final decision was to gather them all in the city of Vriviski. Therefore, the aforementioned went to the city of Vriviski 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 articles 3 and 7, paragraph (a) of article 10, and article 11 of the amendment law number 19 of 1959, a general amnesty was granted to him and his companions.

In 1958, the Republic of Iraq was established under the leadership of Abd al-Karim Qasim. The aforementioned returned to Kurdistan on April 16, 1959, with his companions via the ship Girozya through the port of Basra in the south of the Republic of Iraq.

In 1961, he participated in the September Revolution and took part in several battles. On March 3, 1963, he went from Baghdad to Sulaymaniyah, and in 1964, after the military conference in Ranya, he went to Kirkuk and became the commander of the army in that district in Chamchamal and Tuz Khurmatu. During the September Revolution he was the commander of the 9th Battalion of the Qeredagh Force. The aforementioned, along with Omer Sharif and Melko Zero, was arrested by Rais Kemal and was martyred in 1966 in Chermega.

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