Biography

Sheikho Zubair was born in 1925 in the village of Reziyan in the Barzan district of the Marghera district of Erbil. After she went to the Soviet Union, she married Khoshi Ahmed Yusuf. They had three sons and two daughters, Israfil Sheikh (1951), Esfendi Sheikh (1953), Zeyneb Sheikh (1955), Ismail Sheikh (1956) and Zuhdiya Sheikh (1958). After the March 11 agreement, Sheikho Zubair worked as an observer on the Blê ship from 1971 to 1975. He spoke both Kurdish and Russian. He passed away on May 13, 2008 and was buried in the village of Reziyan.

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In 1943, he joined the ranks of the Second Barzan Revolution and participated in the war. On August 19, 1945, by the decision of the Iraqi Military Court, all his movable and immovable property was confiscated. On October 11, 1945, after the defeat of the Second Barzan Revolution, he headed for Eastern Kurdistan. 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 on the Saqqez front in the Kurdistan Democratic Republic.

On April 19, 1947, they returned to the Sherwan and Mizuri regions via Xwakurk and the Berazgir Plain via Northern Kurdistan.

After their return, General Mustafa Barzani On May 15, 1947, he held a meeting with his friends in the village of Ergoş and discussed whether to stay or go to the Soviet Union. All his comrades decided to continue and go to the Soviet Union. On May 22, 1947, he and General Mustafa Barzani He went to the Soviet Union and participated in the Battle of the Qatur Valley and the Battle of Mako Bridge. After many hardships and difficulties, he crossed the Aras River on the border between Iran and the Soviet Union into the Soviet Union on June 18, 1947.

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, on February 25, 1959, a general amnesty was granted to him and his companions in accordance with Articles 3 and 7 and paragraph (a) of Article 10 and Article 11 of Amendment Act No. 19 of 1959.

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.

Participated in 1964 September Revolution and participated in wars, in 1975, after the defeat of September Revolution, was transferred to southern Iraq and settled in Diwaniyah province, in 1980 he was transferred to the Quştepe community, in 1982 he went to the Islamic Republic of Iran as a refugee and settled in the Zewa camp, in 1985 he moved to the village of Mansorabad during the bombing of the Zewa camp. In 1992 he returned to Kurdistan and went to the village of Bêxme, in 1993 he returned to his village.

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