Pyermos Omar was born in 1916 in the village of Harur, التابعة to the Kani Masi district in Amedi subdistrict, Duhok Governorate. After arriving in the Soviet Union, he could not enroll in university because of his advanced age and continued working. He married twice in the Soviet Union. The first time was to Khadija, and they had a daughter named (Khalida). When he returned to Kurdistan, Khadija refused to return with him. He married a second time to (Siddiqiya Nishan Mohammed), who was from the Republic of Azerbaijan, and they had two daughters and a son, (Ramadan Pyermos), born in 1955. In 1977, after the setback of the Aylul Revolution, he was transferred by the Iraqi government to Kani Masi. In 1977, he was moved to the Talakbar complex, then lived for five years in (Chish), then moved to (Jem Sida). He sought refuge with his family to live in one of the caves during the attacks launched by the Iraqi government and remained there for two years. He died in the city of Zakho on 23 March 1997.
Struggle pagesPyermos Omar joined the ranks of the Second Revolution of Barzan in 1943, and participated in the battles of Bila, Rizan and Barzan, and on 6 November 1943 in the seizure of the Kurto police station. On 19 August 1945, all his movable and immovable property was confiscated by order of the Iraqi Military Court. On 5 September 1945 he participated in the seizure of the Midan Morik police station, and on 11 November 1945, after the setback of the Second Revolution of Barzan, he crossed with Mustafa Barzani and his comrades to East Kurdistan. After the establishment of the Democratic Republic of Kurdistan in Mahabad, on 31 March 1946 he defended the republic within the Barzan force.
After the collapse of the Republic of Kurdistan in Mahabad and Barzani's return from East Kurdistan to South Kurdistan, he participated in the battles of Naqdeh and Shno in East Kurdistan, and was among his Peshmerga comrades. He returned on 19/4/1947 via (Khwakurk and the Bazarkra plain) through the lands of North Kurdistan to the areas of Shirwan and Mazuri.
After their return, General Mustafa Barzani held a meeting with his comrades in the village of Arkosh on 15/5/1947 and gave them the choice of staying or going to the Soviet Union. There, all his comrades decided to continue and head to the Soviet Union. On 23 May 1947, he accompanied General Mustafa Barzani to the Soviet Union, participated in the battles of Qatour and Mako Bridge, and after great hardship and severe exhaustion, crossed the Aras River on 18 June 1947, which lies on the border between Iran and the Soviet Union.
After their arrival in the Soviet Union on 19 June 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 and guarded by soldiers. They were treated as prisoners of war in terms of food, clothing, and transport, and by decision of the Soviet government they were later distributed to the regions of Aghdam, Lachin, Aulakh, and Kalbajar in the Republic of Azerbaijan. On 10 December 1947 they were transferred to a camp on the Caspian Sea in the Azerbaijani republic's capital, Baku, and on the 23rd of the same month they received military uniforms. They were undergoing military training for eight hours a day under the supervision of officers from the Republic of Azerbaijan, and at the same time they were taking lessons in teaching the Kurdish language for four hours a day from some of their educated comrades.
After Jafar Baghirov's mistreatment of his comrades, Barzani decided to move his Military gathering from Azerbaijan on 29 August 1948 to the Jirjok compound 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 the cooperative villages in the Soviet Union and worked on kolkhoz farms (land that people rented from the government and then paid a share of it to the government).
After great efforts and the sending of 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 Frefsky, so in November 1951 he went to the Soviet city of Frefsky.
After the 14 July 1958 revolution in Iraq, and the return of General Mustafa Barzani, on 25 February 1959 he and his comrades were included in the general amnesty according to Articles (3) and (7), paragraph (A) of Article (10), and the implementation of Article (11) under Law No. (19) amended for the Year 1959.
In 1958, the Republic of Iraq was established under the leadership of Abdulkarim Qasim. He returned with his comrades on 16 April 1959 to Kurdistan aboard the ship Krozia via the port of Basra in the south of the Republic of Iraq. He stayed in Erbil, and after months he went to Amedi and then to Heror and Siyartoyka.
In 1961 he participated in Aylul Revolution. He took refuge in Turkey in 1988 during the start of Operation Anfal by the Iraqi government in the Badinan area, and lived in (Arosh). He was later housed in the Mosh and Mardin compound in North Kurdistan. In 1992 he returned to South Kurdistan, and on 16 August 1996 he was awarded the Barzani Medal by President Masoud Barzani as part of the golden jubilee celebrations, in recognition of his struggle and sacrifices in the Second Revolution of Barzan, in the Democratic Republic of Kurdistan, and for accompanying General Mustafa Barzani to the Soviet Union as well as his participation in Aylul Revolution.
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