Biography

Abdullah Dawud Hussein was born in 1921 in the village of Barzan in the Barzan district of the Margasor district of Erbil province, and emigrated to the Republic of Turkey with his family on June 21, 1932. After leaving the Soviet Union, he married Gulnaz Abbas Seyfullah, and they had two sons and two daughters named Muhyeddin Abdullah (1955), Behaeddin Abdullah (1958), Muhteber Abdullah (1956) and Minewar Abdullah (1959). After returning to Kurdistan, Abdullah Dawud worked at the Shaqlawe Agricultural Office in 1959, then moved to the Salaheddin Agricultural Administration and then to the Barzan Agricultural Administration. He knew both Kurdish and Russian. He passed away on December 12, 2006 and was buried in the cemetery of the village of Barzan.

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Abdullah Dawud Hussain was a soldier in Pird in 1943 and was promoted to the rank of first sergeant. He deserted the army and joined the Second Barzan Revolution, participating in the capture of the Shanader police station on October 2, 1943, the capture of the Kherzok police station on October 12, and the capture of the Sherwan police station on October 20. On August 19, 1945, all of his movable and immovable property was confiscated by the decision of the Iraqi Military Court.

After the defeat of the Second Barzan Revolution, he crossed into Eastern Kurdistan on October 11, 1945. On March 31, 1946, he became a peshmerga in the Barzani Forces of the Kurdistan Democratic Republic Army in Mahabad. He participated in the battles of Qelatan and Girki Shan, and on April 29, 1946, he participated in the Battle of Qarawa in the Saqiz area. After the collapse of the Kurdistan Democratic Republic, he participated in the Battle of Nelos on March 3, 1947, and in the Battle of Nexeda and Shino on March 19, 1947. He was one of the peshmerga who returned to the Sherwan and Mazury regions via Khwakurk and the Berezger Plain via Northern Kurdistan on April 19, 1947.

After their return, General Mustafa Barzani held a meeting with his friends in the village of Ergosh on May 15, 1947, and they discussed whether to stay or go to the Soviet Union. There, all his comrades decided to continue and go to the Soviet Union. On May 23, 1947, he went to the Soviet Union with General Mustafa Barzani and participated in the Battle of Qutur 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 into the Soviet Union.

After their arrival in the Soviet Union, on June 19, 1947, they and all their friends were placed in a closed camp surrounded by barbed wire in the city of Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan Republic, for forty days, guarded by a group of soldiers and treated like prisoners of war in terms of food, clothing and transportation. Then, by decision of the Soviet state, they were divided into the regions of Aghdam, Lachin, Ayulax and Kalbajar in Azerbaijan. On December 10, 1947, they were transferred to a military base on the Caspian Sea in Baku, the capital of the Azerbaijan Republic, and on the 23rd of the same month, they were given military uniforms and uniforms and underwent 8 hours of military training a day under the supervision of officers of the Azerbaijan Republic. At the same time, they received four hours of Kurdish language lessons a day from some of their educated friends.

After the disastrous leadership of Jafar Bakirov and his comrades, a decision was made on August 29, 1948, to transfer the military camp from the Republic of Azerbaijan to the Chirchuk community near Tashkent, the capital of the Republic of Uzbekistan, where they continued their military training.

In March 1949, he and his friends were sent by train to the villages of the Soviet Union and worked on collective farms (land that people had taken from the state and then paid 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 spoke about the suffering of his friends, and he immediately decided to form a committee to investigate the situation of Barzani's friends. In the end, the committee decided to gather them all in the city of Vribisky, so the delegation went to the city of Vribisky in the Soviet Union in November 1951.

After the July 14, 1958 revolution in Iraq and the return of General Mustafa Barzani, a general amnesty was granted to him and his associates on February 25, 1959, in accordance with Articles 3 and 7 and paragraph (a) of Article 10 and Article 11 of the 1959 Amendment Law.

In 1958, the Republic of Iraq was established under the leadership of Abdulkarim Qasim. On April 16, 1959, Abdullah Dawud Hussein returned to Kurdistan with his friends on the Georgian ship via the port of Basra in the south of the Republic of Iraq.

Participated in 1961 September Revolution He participated in the battles of Geliyê Nehri, Acre, Pirs, Sariji Mela between Bili and Barzan, and in 1975, after the defeat of September Revolution, went to Iran as a refugee and settled in the city of Yazd, returning to Kurdistan in 1998.

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