Biography

Abdulrahim Jasim was born in 1925 in the village of Pendiro in the Sherwana Mazin district of the Margasur district of Erbil province. On June 21, 1932, he and his family emigrated to Turkey and later returned to Southern Kurdistan with the Barzani families.

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Abdulrahim Jasim joined the ranks of the Second Barzan Revolution in 1945 and participated in the battles. On August 19, 1945, all of his 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, and on March 31, 1946, he became a Peshmerga in the Barzani forces of the Kurdistan Democratic Republic Army in Mahabad, and participated in the battles of the Kurdistan Democratic Republic's Saqiz Front.

After the collapse of the Kurdistan Republic in Mahabad and Barzani's return from Eastern Kurdistan to Southern Kurdistan, he participated in the Battle of Nakhda and the Battle of Shino in Eastern Kurdistan, and was one of the Peshmerga who returned to the Sherwan and Mizuri regions through the land of Northern Kurdistan via Khwakurki and the Berazgir Plain on April 19, 1947.

After their return, General Mustafa Barzani held a meeting with his friends in the village of Ergoş 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. On May 23, 1947, at the beginning of his march to the Soviet Union, he was injured in the village of Dire as a result of Iraqi air force bombing. After receiving initial treatment, he did not leave his comrades and continued on his way.

On June 18, 1947, it 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, 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 government, they were divided into the regions of Aghdam, Lachin, Ayulaq, 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 Republic of Azerbaijan, and on the 23rd of the same month, they were given military uniforms and uniforms and underwent eight hours of military training a day under the supervision of officers of the Republic of Azerbaijan. 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, and on April 16, 1959, he returned to Kurdistan with his friends on the Georgian ship via the port of Basra in the south of the Republic of Iraq.

In 1960, he was detained by the Iraqi government for six months. In 1961, he participated in the September Revolution, participated in the Battle of Nehl and was wounded in this battle. He participated in the battles of the White Valley, Avgeni, Eynzale, and Mount Metini.

He was the deputy commander of the Halgurd forces battalion and participated in the Battle of Dukan. In 1969, he was the deputy commander of the Kawa force and participated in the attack on the Iraqi army camp in the fall of the same year. In 1970, he became the commander of the Hamrin forces in the Surçiyan region.

In 1975, after the defeat of the September Revolution, he went to Iran as a refugee and settled in the Zewa Camp, and then was transferred to the city of Isfahan and then settled in the city of Shahreza. In 1980, he participated in the May Revolution as a commander, and was martyred on September 1, 1983, in Mount Qandil.

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