Biography

Mullah Sharif was born in 1930 in Kanyaderi village of Goratu district of Mergasur district of Erbil province. He was married before going to the Soviet Union he has done it later. Mullah Sharif studied in the Soviet Union and received a degree from the Soviet Union's agricultural department. He was fluent in both Kurdish and Russian. He died in 1985 in Zewa community and was buried in Shino.

The struggle

In 1943, he joined the ranks of the Second Barzan Revolution and participated in the fighting. On August 19, 1945, the Iraqi Military Customary Court ordered the confiscation of all his property. 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 participated in the Kurdistan Democratic Republic and was wounded in the Battle of Saqiz.

 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 Argosh 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.

 He participated in the September Revolution in 1961. After the collapse of the September Revolution, he returned to his hometown in 1975 and was transferred to Diyana community by the Iraqi government. In 1981, he moved to Iran as a refugee.

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