Biography

Abdullah Ziab Ali was born in 1929 in Zeway village of Barzan district of Mergasur district of Erbil province. He was exiled to Turkey with his family on June 21, 1932. He studied in the Soviet Union After returning from the Soviet Union, he was employed as an employee in Kirkuk in 1959. He died on December 2, 2006 and was buried in the cemetery of Barzan village.

The struggle

Abdullah Ziab Ali, after the collapse of the Second Barzan Revolution on October 11, 1945, moved to East Kurdistan. On March 31, 1946, he joined the Barzani forces of the Kurdistan Democratic Republic Army in Mahabad After the collapse of the Kurdistan Democratic Republic on March 25, 1947, he participated in the battle of Havrs and Halaji.

 He was one of the Peshmergas who returned to Sherwan and Mazuri regions of North Kurdistan 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 his comrades, it was decided to move the 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 from the general Mustafa BarzaniIn November 1951, Stalin received a letter from Barzani describing the suffering of his comrades. He immediately decided to form a committee to investigate the situation of Barzani's comrades Vrivesky in the Soviet.

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 Republican Government was established under the leadership of Abdul Karim Qasim. On April 16, 1959, Abdullah Ziab Ali 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. He participated in the battles of Zawita, Nahle Valley, Duhok, Amedi, Zakho, Akre, Mariba and Sheikhan.

 In 1962, he participated in the battles of Balakayety, Khoshnawti and the surroundings of Koya, Pirs, Milli Sarije, Barzan, Jasri Rezan and Sar-e-Bedarini. In 1964, he was appointed as the governor of Ranya by order of Mala Mustafa Barzani. He was wounded in the region and sent to Iran for treatment.

Abdullah Ziab Ali, on March 11, 1970, became a border guard. In 1975, after the collapse of the September Revolution, he was transferred to southern Iraq by the Iraqi government. In 1982, he participated The May RevolutionIn 1983 he fled to the Islamic Republic of Iran as a refugee. In 1988 he participated in the Dastan of Khawkurk. On the orders of President Barzani, he was in charge of his transfer In 1991, he returned to Kurdistan and settled in Darbutk village, Mergasuri district, Erbil province. He was appointed head of the Nzare committee in Barzan region by order of President Barzani, and later settled in Pirmam it must be. 

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