Biography

Babakr Sheikh Hussein Lachin was born in 1931 in the village of Kirkemo, Sherwan district, Mergasuri district, Erbil province. After the collapse of the First Barzan Revolution, Sheikh Ahmad Barzani and many of his relatives fled to North Kurdistan. On June 21, 1932, he fled to Turkey with his family when he was only one year old They handed him over to the Iraqi government, and their families, like all the families who had fled to North Kurdistan with Sheikh Ahmad, returned to South Kurdistan. Due to the lack of schools and the Iraqi government's lack of attention to education, he was late in school. When the Second Barzan Revolution broke out in 1943, he was in the third grade of primary school.

After accompanying Genl Mustafa Barzani He graduated from the Department of Automotive Mechanics at the Indoseral Technicom University in 1959. He spoke Kurdish, Persian and Russian. He died on March 5, 2020 in Salahaddin township and was buried in the cemetery of Kirkemo village.

The struggle

After the outbreak of the Second Barzan Revolution in 1943, Babakr Sheikh Sen joined the ranks of the revolution at the age of thirteen and served the Peshmerga by delivering food to the headquarters and the battlefield In August 1945, all his property, movable and immovable, was confiscated by order of the Military Customary Court.

On October 11, 1945, after the collapse of the Second Barzan Revolution, he was arrested Mustafa Barzani and his comrades crossed to East Kurdistan. After the establishment of the Kurdistan Democratic Republic in Mahabad, on March 31, 1946, he defended the republic within the Barzan forces.

After the collapse of the Kurdistan Republic in Mahabad and Barzani's return from East Kurdistan to South Kurdistan, he participated in the Battle of Naghdeh and the Battle of Shino in East Kurdistan.

After their return, Genl Mustafa Barzani On May 6, 1947, he held a meeting with his comrades in Argush village and instructed them to stay or go to the Soviet Union. On May 23, 1947, he accompanied General Mustafa Barzani to the Soviet Union during the People's War He participated in the Battle of Mako Bridge and crossed the Aras River to the Soviet Union on June 18, 1947

After arriving in the Soviet Union, on June 19, 1947, he and all his comrades were detained in Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan, for forty days in an open community surrounded by barbed wire by a group of soldiers They were guarded and treated like prisoners of war in terms of food, clothing and transportation. They were later divided into Aghdam, Lachin, Ayulakh and Kalbajar regions of Azerbaijan by the decision of the Soviet government. On December 10, 1947, they were transferred to a military base on the Caspian Sea in Baku, the capital of the Republic of Azerbaijan They have been militarized. At the same time, they were taught Kurdish for four hours a day by some of their educated comrades.

After Jafar Bakirov's mistreatment of his comrades, Barzani decided to move his military camp from the Republic of Azerbaijan on August 29, 1948 to the community of Chirchuk near Tashkent, the capital of the Republic of Uzbekistan, where they continued military training.

In March 1949, he and his comrades were distributed by train to the villages of the Soviet Union and worked on the farms of the kolkhozes (land that people rented from the government and then paid back to the government).

After much effort and sending several letters by General Barzani to Stalin, Stalin finally received a letter in which Barzani talked about the suffering of his comrades and he immediately decided to form a committee to investigate the situation of Barzani's comrades November 1951 Moves to Vrevisky, Soviet Union.

After the July 14, 1958 revolution in Iraq and the return of the general Mustafa BarzaniOn February 25, 1959, he and his comrades were granted a general amnesty under Articles 3 and 7, paragraph (a) of Article 10 and Article 11 of the 1959 Amended Law.

In 1958, the Iraqi Republic was established under the leadership of Abdul Karim Qasim. On April 16, 1959, Sheikh Hussein returned to Kurdistan with his comrades on the ship Georgia via the port of Basra in the south of the Iraqi Republic.  

Babakr Lachin was Mullah Mustafa Barzani's bodyguard in Baghdad with Mustafa Abdullah Faqe Nabi and Saeed Ahmad. 1961 Participation The September RevolutionHe was busy with the first time in the village of Bedarun Idris Barzani In 1962, he joined Mullah Mustafa Barzani and Sharif Abdullah Faqi NabiMustafa Barzani He went to Qaladze, Bitwan and Dukan and participated in the fighting in those areas.

After the March 11, 1970 agreement, he worked as a border guard until 1974, when he returned to Mullah Mustafa Barzani. In 1975, after the collapse of the September Revolution, he moved to Iran as a refugee. He settled in Zeveh community. In the same year, he moved to Jahrum and then to Saveh.

1980 Participation The May Revolutionhas done He participated in the 1991 spring uprising in South Kurdistan and settled in Shaqlawa and later in 1998 in Salahaddin. in Thirteenth Congressی The Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) has been awarded the Immortal Barzani Medal. He died on March 5, 2020 in Salahaddin township and was buried in the cemetery of Kirkemo village.

Sources:

1. 1. Archive of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Encyclopedia Board

   2. Hamid Gawhari, Barzani Medal, Volume 1, (Erbil - Haji Hashim Printing House - 2015).
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