Biography

Shahin Ibrahim was born in 1929 in Mamiski village of Piran district of Mergasur district of Erbil province. After going to the Soviet Union, he studied there and received a bachelor's degree in agriculture. After returning from the Soviet Union in 1959, he was employed in the agricultural office of Makhmur. In 1978 he was transferred to Khalifan Agricultural Office. In 1980 he was appointed as the Deputy Director of Harir Agricultural Office There was Russian.

The struggle

On October 11, 1945, after the collapse of the Second Barzan Revolution, he moved to East Kurdistan. On March 31, 1946, he joined the Barzani forces of the Kurdistan Democratic Republic Army in Mahabad On May 3, he took part in the Battle of Malqarani.

 After the collapse of the Kurdistan Democratic Republic, he participated in the Battle of Nalos on March 3, 1947 and the Battle of Naghdeh and Shino on March 19 of the same year. He was one of the Peshmergas who returned to Sherwan and Mazuri on April 19, 1947 via Khawkurk and Dashti Barazgar.

After their return, General Mustafa Barzani held a meeting with his comrades in the village of Argush on May 15, 1947 and instructed them to stay or go to the Soviet Union He participated in the Battle of Qtur and the Battle of Mako Bridge. On June 18, 1947, he crossed the Aras River 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 received military training. 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 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.  

In 1961, he participated in the September Revolution. On July 31, 1983, he was disappeared by the Iraqi government during the Anfal operation against the Barzanis.

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