Biography

Abdullah Mohammed Ali, also known as Sayed Abdullah, was born in 1936. Like many of his peers, he was deprived of education due to lack of schooling, but his desire to learn was only an opportunity It gave him basic literacy and the ability to read and write in various ways.

Sayed Abdullah looked up in the deserts of Haji Omeran and earned his living from agriculture and livestock breeding and the rifleman.

Sayed Abdullah's family was one of those Kurdish-loving families who served the Peshmerga and their legitimate cause with bread and water, even if they were not armed Kurdishness, freedom and independence of Kurdistan were part of the discussions in their assemblies.

The struggle

When the president's communications Mustafa Barzani The Iraqi government collapsed in 1961. In April of the same year, members of his family and many of their friends and comrades, including Sayyid Abdullah, launched an armed struggle against the government of Abdul Karim Qasim In return, the then governor of Ruandz district sent a vehicle force under the command of Lieutenant Mahmoud to Haji Omeran and the Peshmergas' houses they burn it.

Although the Iraqi government's attitude was to intimidate and retreat the Peshmerga, but Sayyid Abdullah and his comrades decided to continue to defend as long as there is an Iraqi soldier in their area The heroic deeds that led to the elimination of the traces of the Kurdish enemies such as the battles of attacking the military convoy in Omerawa and capturing Makhfar Rayat, Beshe Gorge, the battles of Mount Goraz, Ali Beg People, Valley of Martyrs, Pishdar battles. Qaladze, Dare Qasp and dozens of other stories The September Revolution He participated and until the 1975 Algiers agreement, they decided to live in exile and settled in Iran.

As a result of the pressure that the Iraqi government in coordination with the Iranian government put on Kurdish refugees, many families returned to Iraq and the family of martyr Abdullah was among them and settled in Haji Omeran However, the revolutionary sentiments of their family and the violent policy against the revolutionaries by the Iraqi government, after the meeting on the night of April 28-27, 1976, he chaired Comrade Massoud Barzani It was decided to declare the revolution on May 26 of the same year. The Kurdistan Peshmergas who had returned to Kurdistan at different stages and times, were given a safe haven by the Iraqi government's military institutions They used their simple weapons, which were only the will and strength of the Kurdistan spirit, to use the slogan “Kurdistan is the real arena of struggle”. The May Revolutionor set it on fire.

On the night of May 24-25, 1976, Sayed Abdullah and 22 of his comrades made the mountainous areas of Haji Omeran a defensive base, but were forced by constant surveillance by enemy aircraft So on the morning of May 26, when the news broke The May RevolutionHe was ambushed by the enemy and was martyred along with two of his comrades. He was buried in Haji Omeran cemetery.

resources

1- Archive of the Encyclopedia Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.

2- Khabat newspaper.

3- Massoud Barzani, Barzani and the Kurdish Liberation Movement 1975-1990, Volume 4, Part 1 (Erbil, Roxana Printing House 2021).