Biography
Abdish Omar Abdish was born in 1926 in Spindari village of Sherwan Mazen district of Mergasur district of Erbil province. He was originally from Mamudian village. He had three wives before going to the Soviet Union He married Hashima Hassan Adel and had a son named Rostam Abdish. Abdish Omar was fluent in Kurdish, Turkish and Russian. He died in 1977 and was buried in Mamudian village.
The struggle
Abdish Omar Abdish joined the ranks of the Second Barzan Revolution in 1943 and participated in the fighting. On August 19, 1945, the Iraqi Military Customary Court ordered the confiscation of all his property. After the collapse of the Second Barzan Revolution, he moved to East Kurdistan on October 11, 1945.
On March 31, 1946, he joined the Barzani forces of the Kurdistan Democratic Republic Army in Mahabad and participated in the battles of the Saqiz Front in the Kurdistan Democratic Republic.
After the fall of the Kurdistan Republic in Mahabad and Barzani's return from East Kurdistan, he was one of the Peshmergas who returned to Sherwan and Mazuri in North Kurdistan on April 19, 1947 via Khawkurk and the Barazgar plain.
After their return, Genl Mustafa Barzani On May 15, 1947, he held a meeting with his comrades in Argosh village and instructed them to stay or go to the Soviet Union. There, all his comrades decided to continue and go to the Soviet Union He participated in the Battle of Mako Bridge and after much hardship and fatigue, 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 been militarized. 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 Azerbaijan to the Chirchuk community near Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan, on August 29, 1948, 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 took from the government and then gave 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 Republican Government was established under the leadership of Abdul Karim 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.
Abdish Omar participated The September Revolution He participated in the battles of Nahle, Pirs and Akre. He was wounded twice.
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