Biography

Hussein Mohammed Chicho was born in 1925 in the village of Kaniyalanj, Goratu district, Mergasur district, Erbil province. He went to the Soviet Union, where he married Zahira Kikbai Bayna Zarova. They had one son and two daughters Salawat Hussein (born 1957), Halima Hussein (born 1953) and Aisha Hussein (born 1955). Hussein Mohammed was fluent in both Kurdish and Russian. He was disappeared on July 31, 1983 during the Barzani Anfal operation by the Iraqi government in Harir community.

The struggle

In 1943, he joined the ranks of the Second Barzan Revolution. On October 12, he participated in the capture of the police station of Kherzok and on November 10, he participated in the capture of the police station of Mazne Barzan lost an eye. On August 19, 1945, all his property was confiscated by order of the Iraqi 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 framework of the Barzan forces and participated in the battles of the Saqiz front.

After the collapse of the Kurdistan Republic in Mahabad and Barzani's return from East Kurdistan to South Kurdistan, he was one of the Peshmergas who returned to Sherwan and Mazuri on April 19, 1947 via Khawkurk and Dashti Barazgar.

After their return, Genl Mustafa Barzani On May 6, 1947, he held a meeting with his comrades in the village of Argosh and instructed them to stay or go to the Soviet Union Mustafa Barzani He participated in the Battle of Qtur People and the Battle of Mako Bridge. After much hardship and fatigue, he crossed the Aras River on June 18, 1947, which is located on the border between Iran and the Soviet Union

After arriving in the Soviet Union, on June 19, 1947, he and all his comrades were detained in Nakhchevan, 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 the mistreatment of his comrades, Jafar Bakirov 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 containing  Barzani He immediately decided to form a committee to investigate the situation of Barzani's comrades. The committee decided to gather them all in Vrevisky. In November 1951, he went to Vrevisky in the 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, he returned to Kurdistan with his comrades on the ship Georgia via the port of Basra in the south of the Iraqi Republic. 

1961 Participation The September RevolutionIn 1975, after the collapse of the September Revolution, he fled to Iran and returned to Kurdistan in 1977.

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