Biography

Hassan Suwar was born in 1920 in the village of Lerey in the district of Sherwan Mazen in the district of Mergasur in the province of Erbil He fled to Turkey with his family when he was only one year old, but after the Turkish authorities handed over Sheikh Ahmad Barzani to the Iraqi government in 1933, his family returned to South Kurdistan like all the families who had fled to North Kurdistan. Before going to the Soviet Union, he was married to Aish Mullah Yahya Mohammed. He studied in the Soviet Union and received an institute degree in agriculture. He died in 1980 in Bahrka.

The struggle

In 1943, he joined the ranks of the Second Barzan Revolution and participated in the fighting. On August 19, 1945, the Iraqi Military Customary Court ordered the confiscation of all his property.

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. After the collapse of the Kurdistan Democratic Republic on March 19, 1947, he participated in the battles of Shino, Naghdeh and Mokria.

 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 Argosh 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 and participated in its fighting From June 9, 1947 to June 11, 1947, he participated in the battles of Qtur People and Mako Bridge. On June 18, 1947, he crossed the Aras River on the border between Iran and the Soviet Union crossed.

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 Abdulkarim 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. 

 Participation The September RevolutionHe fought in the battles of Pirs, Milli Mullah, Gorez and Kekla The May Revolutionalso participated

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