Biography
Omar Faqe Omar was born in 1927 in Bedarun village, Sherwan Mazen district, Mergasur district, Erbil province. In 1975, after the collapse of the September Revolution (1961-1975), he fled to Iran. In 1991, after the uprising of the people of South Kurdistan, he returned and settled in his hometown.
The struggle
On May 22, 1947, he accompanied General Mustafa Barzani to the Soviet Union and participated in the Battle of Kotol (Qtur) and the Battle of Mako Bridge The Soviet Union has crossed
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 the 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.
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 1963, he joined the Peshmerga forces of the September Revolution and participated in the fighting. In 1984, he rejoined the Peshmerga forces of the May Revolution.
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