Biography

Saeed Omar was born in 1910 in Argoshi village of Sherwan Mazen district of Mergasur district of Erbil province. He was married before going to the Soviet Union. His family name was Hasna Mohammed Sharif and they had two sons They were born Farhad Saeed and Fatah Saeed. He married Nina in the Soviet Union and had a son named Rostam. He spoke Kurdish, English and Russian.

On July 31, 1983, during the Anfal operation against the Barzanis, he was disappeared by the Iraqi government in Qushtapa community with his two sons, Farhad Saeed and Fatah Saeed.

The struggle

In 1944, he joined the ranks of the Second Barzan Revolution and participated in most of the battles of that revolution. On October 11, 1945, after the collapse of the Second Barzan Revolution, he moved to East Kurdistan. On March 31, 1946, he served as a Peshmerga in the Barzani forces of the Kurdistan Democratic Republic Army in Mahabad He was among the Peshmergas who returned to Sherwan and Mazuri regions of North Kurdistan 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 Argosh village and instructed them to stay or go to the Soviet Union. On May 23, 1947, he accompanied General Mustafa Barzani to the Soviet Union in the Battle of Qtur He participated in the Battle of Mako Bridge and 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 General Mustafa Barzani, on February 25, 1959, he and his comrades were granted a general amnesty under Articles 3 and 7, paragraphs (a) of Article 10 and Article 11.

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. 

 He participated in the September Revolution in 1975 after the coup The September Revolution He was transferred to southern Iraq by the Iraqi government and settled in Diwaniya province. In 1980 he was transferred to Qushtapa community.

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