Biography

Sadiq Bakhshi Ahmad was born in 1924 in Hassan Bakra village of Dereluk district of Amedi district of Duhok province. He studied in the Soviet Union and received a bachelor's degree in agriculture from Tashkent University The Soviet Union married Sunds Sina Bilav and they had a son, Yousef Sadiq. After returning from the Soviet Union, he was employed in the Mosul Agricultural Office in 1959. He retired in 1993 after the Kurdistan People's Uprising. He died on August 12, 1998 in Duhok.

The struggle

Sadiq Bakhshi joined the ranks of the Second Barzan Revolution in 1943. On October 2, he participated in the capture of Shanadar police station and on October 15, he participated in the capture of Birkapra police station. On August 19, 1945, all his property was confiscated by order of the Iraqi Military Customary Court. On September 5 of the same year, he participated in the arrest of the Maidan Moriki police station. After the collapse of the Second Barzan Revolution, he moved to East Kurdistan on October 11, 1945. On March 31, 1946, he joined the Barzani forces of the Kurdistan Democratic Republic Army in Mahabad Naghdeh has done it.

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 15, 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 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 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 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 Abdul Karim 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 battles of Bubble Bridge and Sarsangi, the Battle of Sulivana Plain on November 23 and the Battle of Zawita People from December 7 to Sheikhs of Barzan in the plain.

In 1975, after Nskoy The September Revolution He was arrested several times by the Iraqi government from December 25, 1985 to February 15, 1987. In 1991, he participated in the Duhok uprising and his resistance in the Second Barzan Revolution, the Kurdistan Democratic Republic, the path to the Soviet Union, The September Revolution, The May Revolution and the uprising by the president Massoud Barzani He was awarded the Immortal Barzani Medal. 

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