Biography

Hakim Yasin Taha was born in 1889 in Pendro village, Sherwan Mazen district, Mergasur district, Erbil province. He was married before going to the Soviet Union. His family name was Maryam Mohammed Chicho He passed away.

The struggle

In 1932 he joined the ranks of the First Barzan Revolution and participated in the battles on June 21 of the same year He fled to Turkey with his family and was handed over to the Iraqi governmentIn 1936, he was transferred to southern Iraq by the Iraqi government and exiled to Baghdad and Hilla.

 In 1943, he and his son Sulaiman joined the ranks of the Second Barzan Revolution. On August 19, 1945, the Iraqi Military Customary Court ordered the confiscation of all his property. On September 5 of the same year, he participated in the arrest of the Maidan Moriki police station.

 After the collapse of the Second Barzan Revolution on October 11, 1945, he moved to East Kurdistan. On March 31, 1946, he served as a Peshmerga in the Barzan Force of the Kurdistan Democratic Republic Army in Mahabad He was one of the Peshmergas who returned to Sherwan and Mazuri regions of North Kurdistan 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 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, 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 RevolutionIn 1975, he was in charge of the PKK organization.

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