Lawyer and politician Rashid Ismail Axa, known as Rashid Bajalan. In the late 1930s and 1940s, he participated as a member, founder and leader of several associations and parties, such as the Brotherhood Association and the Lawan Association in Baghdad, the Darker Association in Khanaqin, the Hiway Kurdish Party in Kirkuk, and the Kurdish Liberation Party. In 1946, he participated in the second congress of the Kurdish Liberation Party in Baghdad and voted to dissolve it so that the Kurdish Liberation Party could join the ranks of the Kurdish Democratic Party. In 1946, he was elected a member of the Central Committee of the Kurdish Democratic Party at the first congress. He passed away on February 16, 2001 in Baghdad.
Biography
Rashid Ismail Axa was born in 1920 in Diyala. He began his studies in the Law Department of the Baghdad College of Law in 1940 and received his bachelor's degree in 1944. He worked as a lawyer and judge and became a member of the Iraqi Lawyers' Union. He was appointed to the Ministry of Agricultural Reform in 1958 and was later appointed as a judge on February 14, 1960. He retired on June 30, 1983 and finally became a member of the History and Culture Committee of the Iraqi Kurdish Scientific Council (Iraqi Academy of Sciences).
He passed away on February 16, 2001 in Baghdad and was buried there in the Karkh cemetery. He was fluent in Kurdish, Turkish, Arabic, Persian and English.
Worksheet
In the last thirty and forties of the last century, he participated as a Member, Founder and Leader in several associations and parties such as the Brotherhood Association and the Lawan Association in the city of Baghdad and the Darker Association in Khanaqin and the Kurdish Freedom Party in the city of Kirkuk and the Kurdish Liberation Party. In 1944, he participated in the Kelar Congress of the Kurdish Freedom Party in support of the second Barzan revolution (1943 - 1945).
In 1946, in the company of Mirhaj Ahmed Tahir (1911 - 1988), known as Mirhaj Akrey, he met with Qazi Muhammad, the President of the Democratic Republic of Kurdistan, in the city of Mahabad. In 1948, he was the organizer of the bread demonstrations in the town of Khanaqin and supported the imprisoned and imprisoned Barzanis in this demonstration, and for this reason he was punished and imprisoned by the Iraqi authorities on charges of inciting the people to demonstrate.
In 1946, he was a delegate to the Second Congress of the Kurdish Liberation Party in Baghdad and voted to dissolve it so that the Kurdish Liberation Party could join the ranks of the Kurdish Democratic Party. In the same year, he was elected a member of the Central Committee of the Kurdish Democratic Party at the first congress of the KDP. He participated in the fourth congresses in 1959 and the fifth in 1960. In 1963, he was arrested and tortured by the National Guard forces (Al Heres Al Qawmi) on charges of being Kurdish.
His works:
Al Tawab Mosque 2014
Source:
1- A'dad, Karwan Osman Xeyat, Rashid Ismail Bacalan, Cami' Al Tawab, (Al Sulaymaniyah - Al Mudiriye Al Ame Lil Seqafe ou Al Fen Lil Germiyan - Matbaa Gunc - 2014.
2- History of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, congresses and conferences (program and internal proceedings), Encyclopedia Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, first volume, (Hewlêr - Roksana Publishing House - 2021).
3- Shadan Khanaqin, the famous personality of Khanaqin Rashid Bacalan, Sirwan magazine, issue 15 of Khanaqin of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, issue 4, fall 2008.
4- Mehdi Muhammad Qadir, Political Developments in Iraqi Kurdistan 1945-1958, (Sulaymaniyah - Kurdistan Strategy Research Center 2005).
5- Omar Ali Sharif, Rashid Bacelan 1920 - 2001, 100 Famous People of Kirkuk and Germiya, (Sulaymaniyah - Karo Press 2019).
6- Şiwan Mihemed Emin Teha Khoshnaw, A historical study of the political situation in Hewlêr between 1963 and 1970, (Hewlêr - Salaheddine University Press 2016).
7- Behar Rashid Bacelan, Rashid Bacelan 1920 - 2001, an ancient and veteran fighter for Kurdishness, (Sulaymaniyah - Binkey Jîn - Şivan Publishing House 2007).
8- Habib Muhammad Karim, History of the Democratic Party of Kurdistan in Iraq (Including the Presidency) 1946 - 1993, (Dihok - Xebat Press 1998).
9- Abdulrezaq Mutlak Al Fahd, Al Ahzab Al Siyasiye Fî Al Iraq y dewrehah fî Al Herake Al Watani y al Qawmi 1934 - 1958, (Beirut - Şarkiye Al Matbuat lil Tawzi wal Neşir - 2011).
10- Ali Abdullah, History of the Democratic Party of Kurdistan - Iraq until the establishment of the third congress, (Bê Şiwên - September 1968).
11- Osman Sangeserî, part of the lives of the immortal leaders of Kurdistan, (Sulaymaniyah - Sima Publishing House 2014).
12- Masoud Al Barzani, Al Barzani Wel Hereke Al Tahririye Al Kurdiye, al Mujaled Al Awil, Al Tabiye Al Saniye, (Beirut - Kawa Lil Seqafiye Al Kurdiye 1997).
