Biography

Born in 1924 in the village of Hasin Bakra in the Derelok district of the Amadey district of Duhok province, he studied in the Soviet Union and received a Bachelor's degree in agriculture from Tashkent University. He married Sunds Sina Bilav in the Soviet Union and had a son named Yusuf Sidiq. Sidiq Bakshi worked in the Mosul Agricultural Office after returning from the Soviet Union in 1959. He retired after the Kurdistan People's Uprising in 1993 and passed away in Duhok on August 12, 1998.

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Sidiq Bakhshi joined the ranks of the Second Barzan Revolution in 1943 (1943-1945), participated in the capture of the Şanedar police station on October 2 and in the capture of the Birakepra police station on October 15. On August 19, 1945, all his movable and immovable property was confiscated by the decision of the Iraqi Military Court. On September 5 of the same year, he participated in the capture of the Meydan Morik police station.

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 within Barzani's forces of the Kurdistan Democratic Republic Army in Mahabad. After the collapse of the Kurdistan Democratic Republic on March 19, 1947, he participated in the battles of Shino and Nakhede.

He was one of the Peshmerga who returned to the Sherwan and Mizuri regions via North Kurdistan via Xwakurk and the Berazgir Plain on April 19, 1947.

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 1961 September Revolution He participated in the battles of Pira Bilbil and Sersingi, participated in the battle of Deshta Silêvaneyan on November 23, and from December 7 to 12, he participated in the battle of Zawîte Valley. After the agreement of March 11, 1970, he became the representative of the Barzan Sheikhs in Deshta Ze.

In 1975, after the defeat September Revolution returns to his village, is arrested several times by the Iraqi government from December 25, 1985 to February 15, 1987, participates in the uprising in the city of Duhok in 1991, on August 16, 1996, during the Golden Jubilee celebrations, for his struggle and resistance in the Second Barzan Revolution, the Democratic Republic of Kurdistan, the Road to the Soviet Union, September Revolution, May Revolution and the Rebellions by the President Masoud Barzani He was awarded the Barzani Medal of Honor.

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