Biography

He was born in 1925 in Bersiavi village of Piran district of Mergasur district of Erbil province. He studied in the Soviet Union and received a degree in agriculture from Tashkent University He was employed in the Mosul Agricultural Office. He died on December 1, 2000 in Bersiav village.

The struggle

In 1943 he joined the ranks of the Second Barzan Revolution. On October 15 of the same year he participated in the capture of the police station of Birkapra and on October 20 of the same year he participated in the capture of the police station of Sherwan Mazni The Iraqi military customary court ordered the confiscation of all his property. On September 5, 1946, he participated in the capture of the Maidan Moriki police station. After the collapse of the Second Barzan Revolution, he moved to East Kurdistan on October 11, 1946. On March 31, 1946, he joined the Barzan forces He participated in the Saqiz Front in the Kurdistan Democratic Republic. After the collapse of the Kurdistan Democratic Republic on March 3, 1947, he participated in the Battle of Nalosi in East 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 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 in the Battle of Qtur He participated in the Battle of Mako Bridge and 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 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. 

 1961 Participation The September RevolutionHe was wounded in the plot of Barzani's headquarters in Haji Omeran on September 29, 1971. After the collapse of the September Revolution in 1975, he fled to Iran From there he was transferred to Semnan and later settled in Qazvin. In 1980 he returned to Slevana and was appointed as the head of his Peshmerga guards Massoud Barzani. . . .

 He returned to Kurdistan in 1991 and participated in the Kurdistan Uprising. He retired in 1995. On August 16, 1996, he was arrested for his struggle and resistance in the Second Barzan Revolution of the Kurdistan Democratic Republic He was awarded the Immortal Barzani Medal by President Massoud Barzani for the Soviet Union, the September Revolution and the Uprising.

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