Biography

Sadiq Sulaiman Osman was born in 1915 in Barzan village, Barzan district, Mergasur district, Erbil province. He was married before going to the Soviet Union He died on June 22, 1960 in a car accident.

The struggle

On May 23, 1947, he accompanied General Mustafa Barzani to the Soviet Union and participated in the Battle of Qtur People and the Battle of Mako Bridge crossed.

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 Jafar Bakirov's mistreatment of Barzani's comrades, it was decided to move his military camp from Azerbaijan to Chirchuk community near Tashkent, capital of Uzbekistan, where they continued their 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 In November 1951, he moved 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.

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