Biography

He was born in 1926 in the village of Shingili, Barzan district, Mergasur district, Erbil province. He studied in the Soviet Union and received a bachelor's degree in mechanics from Shaw University in Moscow He was employed in the Mafoor factory in Erbil in 1970. He spoke Kurdish, Persian and Russian.

The struggle

In 1943, he joined the ranks of the Second Barzan Revolution and participated in the Battle of Nahli. On August 19, 1945, all his property was confiscated by the order of the Iraqi Military Customary Court. On September 5, 1945, he participated in the capture 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 Barzani forces of the Kurdistan Democratic Republic Army Saqiz has done.

 After the collapse of the Kurdistan Democratic Republic, he participated in the Battle of Nalos on March 3, 1947 and the Battle of Naghdeh and Shino in East Kurdistan on March 19, 1947 has done

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 Argush 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, 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 Barzani On 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 participated in the battle of Sar-e-Akre on 14-15 June 1963 and was wounded in the left leg.

 In 1974, he returned to the ranks of the Peshmerga in Haji Omeran and worked on machine guns. In 1975, after the collapse of the September Revolution, he fled to Iran as a refugee He went to Mashhad and worked there. 1976 Participation  The May RevolutionIn 1980 he returned to Zewa community and served in the party's weapons and ammunition warehouse. In July 1981 he was a guard of the shrine of the late Barzani in Halaj village. In 1991 he participated in the uprising He was transferred to the social department of Barzan region and retired in On December 16, 2010, at the 13th Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), he was awarded the Kurdistan Democratic Republic (KDP) for his struggle and resistance in the Second Barzan Revolution. The September Revolution, The May Revolution and the uprising by the president Massoud Barzani He was awarded the Barzani Medal.

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