Biography

Zrar Suleiman Beg Dargali was born in 1924 in the village of Mawlyan, affiliated with the Rawanduz district in Erbil province. Before going to the Soviet Union, he was married, and his wife's name was Halima Wasta Rahim; they had a son named Sardar Zrar. In 1952, he was admitted to Tashkent University and received a bachelor's degree in history. He married Zoya Ismailov (Zahra Hassan Ismail) in the Soviet Union. After the return of Barzani's companions from the Soviet Union, his family did not return to South Kurdistan. He knew the Kurdish, Arabic, Persian, and Russian languages. He passed away on May 19, 2018.

Struggle Record

 In 1943, he was a Military in the Kingdom of Iraq government. In the autumn of 1943, he was transferred to the Mergasor district. In early 1944, he was imprisoned by the Kirkuk Martial Court. In early February 1946, he was released from prison and returned to the ranks of the Iraq army. In April 1946, he deserted the military and headed to East Kurdistan. He served as a Peshmerga in the Barzan force affiliated with the army of the Republic of Kurdistan and was granted the rank of Officer. In the last three months of the Republic of Kurdistan, he was entrusted with the task of Qaimaqam of Naghadeh. After the fall of the Republic of Kurdistan, on March 24, 1947, he participated in the Battle of Qarna in the Khaneh region of East Kurdistan and was wounded in this battle.

After the fall of the Republic of Kurdistan in Mahabad and the return of Barzani from East Kurdistan to South Kurdistan, he participated in the Battle of Naghadeh and the Battle of Oshnavieh in East Kurdistan. He was also among the Peshmerga who returned to the Shirwan and Mizuri region on April 19, 1947, through (Hakkari and the Barazgir plain) via the territory of North 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 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 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, guarded by a group of Military, 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, Ayolakh, 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, under the supervision of the Officers of the Republic of Azerbaijan, were trained for eight hours of military exercises daily.

After the bad treatment of the companions by Jafar Baghirov, it was decided to move the military camp on August 29, 1948, from the Republic of Azerbaijan to the Charchuk 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 and squads by train among the collective villages of the Soviet Union and worked on the Kolkhoz farms (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, a letter finally 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, and according to both the third and seventh articles and paragraph (a) of the tenth article and the implementation of article (11) based on the amended Law No. 19 of the Year 1959, he and his companions were granted a general amnesty.

In the Year 1958, the Republic of Iraq was established under the presidency of Abdul Karim Qasim. On April 16, 1959, he returned to Kurdistan with his companions by the ship Grozia via the port of Basra in the south of the Republic of Iraq. 

 In the Year 1959, he became a teacher. At the request of the immortal Barzani, he remained in Kirkuk and was later transferred to Rawanduz. In 1963, he participated in the Aylul Revolution and was a battalion assistant. On July 16, 1963, he participated in the Spilik battle, and in the Year 1965, he participated in the Korek Mountain battle. In 1966, he participated in the Handren epic and was wounded in that epic.

After the March 11, 1970 agreement, he returned to his former profession, and in the same year, he became a representative of the Communist Party. In 1972, he participated in both congresses of the Kurdistan Teachers' Union in Erbil and Baghdad. In 1973, he moved his home to Baghdad and was employed at the Republic High School. In the Year 1979, he returned to Erbil. In 1991, he participated in the uprising in Erbil and Kirkuk. In 1993, at the first congress of the Kurdistan Independent Labor Party, he became a member of the leadership and later became a member of the political bureau until the dissolution of that Party.

Sources:
  1. Hamid Gardi, Summary of History, First Edition, (Erbil - Aras Printing and Publishing House - Ministry of Education Press - 2004)
  2. Zrar Suleiman Beg Dargali, My Memoirs in the Years 1943-1977, (Sulaymaniyah - Rahand Press - 2002)
  3. Omar Farouqi, Sardar Dana, The Life and Struggles of the Late Mulla Mustafa Barzani, 2nd edition, (Erbil - Ministry of Education Press - 2002).
  4.  In the memoirs of the martyr commander Haso Mirxan Zhazhoki, 62 Days with Barzani, The Barzanis' Journey to the Soviet Union, 1st edition (Erbil - Enlightenment Press - 1997).
  5. Masoud Barzani, Barzani and the Kurdish Liberation Movement 1931 - 1958, (Duhok - Khabat Press - 1998).
  6. Archive of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Encyclopedia Committee.