Biography

Hussein Ibrahim was born in 1910 in the village of Dawidka, Barzan district, Mergasur district, Erbil province. He was married before going to the Soviet Union. His family name was Gul and they had a daughter named Amina. Hussein Ibrahim studied in the Soviet Union and received a degree in agriculture. He married Vera Ibrahim Osman in the Soviet Union. They had a son named Ibrahim, born in In 1983, during the Anfal operation against the Barzanis, his son Ibrahim Hussein was disappeared by the Iraqi government in Qushtapa community. He spoke both Kurdish and Russian. He died in 1986 in Qushtapa community and was buried there.

The struggle

He joined the ranks of the Second Barzan Revolution in 1943. On November 10, 1943, he participated in the capture of the Mazne police station. On August 19, 1945, all his property was confiscated by the Iraqi Military Customary Court and captured in its untransmitted. After the collapse of the Second Barzan Revolution, he moved to East Kurdistan on October 11, 1945. On March 31, 1946, he joined the Barzan Force of the Kurdistan Democratic Republic Army in Mahabad The Kurdistan Republic in Mahabad and Barzani's return from East Kurdistan to South Kurdistan. He was among the Peshmergas who returned to Sherwan and Mazuri on April 19, 1947 via Khawkurk and Dashti Barazgar.

After their return, General 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 General 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 Mustafa Barzanito Stalin, Stalin finally receives a letter in which 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 his return 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. 

 He participated in the September Revolution in 1961. After the collapse of the September Revolution in 1976, he was transferred to southern Iraq by the Iraqi government and settled in Diwaniya province. In 1981, he was transferred to Qushtapa community.

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