Biography

Ramazan Haji Omar was born in 1929 in the village of Kurani in the district of Goratu in the district of Mergasur in Erbil province He crossed the Iran-Iraq border and was detained in Sim Diyana for several months. His family was Leila Mullah Hussein. They had two daughters, Hajar and Mahboob, both born in 1945 in the Republic of Mahabad They have passed away.  Ramazan Kurani studied in the Soviet Union. On February 15, 1954, he was admitted to the Department of Geography at Tashkent University, but he could not work. He married Zainab Sayed Osman in the Soviet Union and they had two daughters She was born in 1956 in the city of Baghdad. He was fluent in Kurdish, Persian, Turkish, Arabic and Russian. He died in 1992 in Shakholan community.

The struggle

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

After the collapse of the Second Barzan Revolution on October 11, 1945, he moved to East Kurdistan. On March 31, 1946, he joined the Barzan force of the Kurdistan Democratic Republic Army in Mahabad Kurdistan.

He was one of the Peshmergas who returned to Sherwan and Mazuri on April 19, 1947 via Khawkurk and Dashti Barazgar 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. There, all comrades decided to continue and go to the Soviet Union The Soviets crossed. While crossing the Aras River, he fell into the water and was carried away Mustafa Barzani He threw himself into the water and saved her.

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, guarded by a group of soldiers They have been treated as prisoners of war for 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. 

 From 1959 to 1961 he was the special bodyguard of the late Barzani The September RevolutionHe was wounded in the Battle of Zawita in 1961. He was also wounded in the Battle of the White People. He participated in the Battle of Sar-e-Atroshi in  Mount Matin , 1966 Participation  The Story of HandrenFrom 1967 to 1975 he was a battalion commander in Baske Dere. In 1974 he participated in the battle of Sartiz and in 1975 he participated in the battle of Omar Agha Gorge.

 He lived in Goratu district from 1979 to 1991. He was transferred to Shakholan community by the Iraqi government. In 1991 he participated in the uprising.

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