Biography
Rashid Ibrahim Qadir, also known as Rashid Mir, was born in 1919 in the village of Sarwkani in North Kurdistan. He died in 1999 in the village of Chame.
The struggle
The General Mustafa Barzani On May 6, 1947, he held a meeting with his comrades in Argush 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 Nakhchivan, 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 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.
Sources:
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Archive of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Encyclopedia Board.
- Karwan Mohammed Majid, Barzanis from Mahabad to the Soviet Union, 1st edition, (Sulaimani - Paywand Printing House - 2011).
- Hataw Magazine, No. 154, Year 6, Erbil, Kurdistan Printing House, Friday, April 15, 1959.
- In the memoir of the commander of martyr Haso Mirkhan Zhazhoki, 62 days with Barzani, the departure of the Barzanis to the Soviet Union, first edition (Erbil - Cultural Printing House - 1997).
- Massoud Barzani, Barzani and the Kurdish Liberation Movement 1931-1958, (Duhok - Khabat Printing House - 1998).
- A.D.E., File No AI-10. List of Mustafa Barzani's Comrades to the Soviet Union, document presented by Sagvan Halo,
