Biography

Sulaiman Hakim YasinHe was born in 1928 in Pendro village, Sherwan Mazen district, Mergasur district, Erbil province. He was displaced to Turkey with his family on June 21, 1932. He returned to Kurdistan in 1933, after the Second Kurdistan Revolution He studied Russian and political law in the Soviet Union until 1950. In 1952, he was admitted to the agricultural department of Tashkent University He married Lida in the Soviet Union. In 1959, he became a professor of Russian and a professor of agriculture at the University of Mustansiriyah In 1977, he returned to Erbil and was re-established in the Erbil Agricultural Office. He died on November 15, 2011 in Erbil.

The struggle

Sulaiman Hakim Yasin He joined the ranks of the Second Barzan Revolution in 1945. On August 19, 1945, all his property was confiscated by the Iraqi Military Customary Court. On September 5, 1945, he participated in the capture 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 He was promoted to the rank of officer and was in charge of distributing food and supplies to the battle fronts of Saqiz and Sardasht.

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 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 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 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.  

 In 1961, he participated in the September Revolution. He participated in the battles of Rekani, Zebari, Syedkan and Nahla. He was wounded in Garbish village and was treated in Zuragvani cave near Rezan He was wounded for the second time. In 1974, he took up arms and went to Ghala The September Revolution He moved to the Kingdom of Iran as a refugee and settled in Jahrum.

 On December 15, 2010 at  13th Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Because of its struggle and resistance in the Second Barzan Revolution, the Kurdistan Democratic Republic made its way to the Soviet Union The September Revolution by the President Massoud Barzani He was awarded the Barzani Medal. 

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