Biography

Ziab Hasni was born in 1925 in Hasni village of Barzan district in Mergasur district of Erbil province. He was married before going to the Soviet Union. His family name was Sarwar Chicho Ismail. They had two sons and two daughters They were identified as Amina Ziab, Bayboon Ziab, Fakhr Ziab and Musa Ziab. Ziab Hasni studied in the Soviet Union and received a degree in agriculture. In 1959, he was employed in the Erbil Roads Administration and later transferred to Barzan region. He was fluent in both Kurdish and Russian He died in 1975 in Hasne village and was buried there.

 On July 31, 1983, during the Anfal operation against the Barzanis by the Iraqi government in Qushtapa community (Erbil), he had three sons, Mohammed Ziab (1963-1983), Uzer Ziab (1966-1983) and Fakhr Ziab (1970-1983) are disappeared.

The struggle

Ziab Hasni joined the ranks of the Second Barzan Revolution in 1943 and participated in the fighting. On August 19, 1945, the Iraqi Military Customary Court ordered the confiscation of all his property On October 11, 1945, after the collapse of the Second Barzan Revolution, he moved to East Kurdistan with his family. On March 31, 1946, he joined the Barzan Force of the Kurdistan Democratic Republic Army in Mahabad He was among 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 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 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. 

 1964 Participation The September RevolutionHe participated in the battles of Pirs and Malay and supervised the battle of Resha. He continued his Peshmerga struggle until the end of the revolution.

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