Biography

Abdulrahim Abdullah Omar was born in 1920 in Babke village of Piran district of Mergasur district of Erbil province. In 1954 he started his studies at the Institute of Arts-Agricultural Department of the Soviet Ministry of Agriculture. . . . He married in the Soviet Union and had two daughters. He graduated from the institute in 1959. He spoke Kurdish, Arabic and Russian. In 1959 he was employed in the Erbil Agricultural Office. He died on December 13, 2005 in Erbil and was buried in Babke cemetery.

The struggle

In 1943, he joined the ranks of the Second Barzan Revolution. On August 19, 1945, the Military Customary Court ordered the confiscation of all his property.

On October 11, 1945, after the collapse of the Second Barzan Revolution, he was arrested Mustafa Barzani and his comrades crossed to East Kurdistan. After the establishment of the Kurdistan Democratic Republic in Mahabad, on March 31, 1946, he defended the republic within the Barzan forces.

After the collapse of the Kurdistan Republic in Mahabad and Barzani's return from East Kurdistan to South Kurdistan, he participated in the Battle of Naghdeh and the Battle of Shino in East Kurdistan.

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 during the People's War He participated in the Battle of Mako Bridge and crossed the Aras River to the Soviet Union on June 18, 1947

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 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.

  1961 Participation The September RevolutionHe participated in the fighting in 1975 after the collapse of the Kurdistan Region The September Revolution He moved to Iran as a refugee. In 1976, he returned to South Kurdistan and settled in Kani Qarzala.

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