Biography

Juma Mustafa Yousef was born in 1920 in the village of Tel in Erbil province. During the Anfal operation, on July 31, 1983, Juma Mustafa Yousef and his son Khoshavi Juma (1969-1983) were enforced to disappear by the Iraqi government in Qushtapa community in Erbil.

Service Record

Subsequently on May 23, 1947, Juma Mustafa Yousef accompanied General Mustafa Barzani to the Soviet Union and affiliated in the Battle of Qtur and the Battle of Mako Bridge. Then on June 18, 1947, he crossed the Aras River on the Iran-Soviet border to the Soviet Union.

After their return on May 15, 1947, General Mustafa Barzani convenes a conference with his comrades in the village of Argush, and he gives them the option of remaining in Kurdistan or going to the Soviet Union. As a result, on April 23, 1947, he left for the Soviet Union alongside Mustafa Barzani. After that, he was engaged in the Gali Qtur and Prdi Mako fights. After a long and much difficulty, on June 18, 1947, on the Iranian-Soviet border, Mulla Mustafa Barzani and his force crossed the Aras River. 

Following their arrival in to Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan on June 19th, 1947, Mustafa Barzani and all of his companions were imprisoned for forty days. In fact, they were given the same treatment as prisoners of war in terms of food, clothing, and transportation while living in a camp which was surrounded by barbed wire and guarded by soldiers. Not long after, by decision of Soviet Union government, they were divided into groups and transferred to the regions of Aghdam, Lachin, Ayulakh and Kalbajar in the Republic of Azerbaijan. By December 10, 1947, they were moved to a military base on the Caspian Sea in Baku, the capital of the Republic of Azerbaijan.  On the 23rd of the same month on the Caspian Sea in Baku, the capital of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Barzani's followers were organized into a military regiment and received training in military tactics and politics and taught to read and write Kurdish by their other educated Peshmarga.

As a result of Jafar Bakirov's mistreatment, On August 29, 1948, Mula Mustafa Barzani made the decision to relocate his military camp from Azerbaijan to the village of Chirchuk close to Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan, where they sustained their military training. 

Following that, in March 1949, Mula Mustafa and his friends were split up into groups and sent by rail to the countryside of the Soviet Union, where they worked on the kolkhozes' crops. (Land that people rented from the government and then returned to it).

Finally after much effort and sending several letters by General Barzani to Stalin, Stalin finally received a letter in which Barzani talked about the suffering of his comrades. Stalin immediately decided to form a committee to investigate the situation of Barzani's comrades. When the committee investigated the situation of Barzani's comrades, they decided to gather them all in Vrievsky. As a result on November 1951, he went to Vrevsky, Soviet Union. 

Once General Mustafa Barzani returns to Iraq after the revolution On July 14, 1958, he and his allies were got a general amnesty On February 25, 1959 in accordance with Articles 3 and 7, Paragraph (a) of Article 10, and Working with Article (11) based on the Amended Law No. 19.

In 1958, the Iraqi Republic was established under the leadership of Abdul Karim Qasim After that on April 16, 1959, Juma Mustafa Yousef returned to Kurdistan and with his comrades on the ship Grozya through the port of Basra in the south of the Iraqi Republic.

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