Biography
Ali Shaban was born in 1925 in Hasnka village of Mergasur district in Mosul province and Erbil province. He went to school at the request of Barzani. After returning from the Soviet Union, he returned to Basra in southern Iraq on April 16, 1959. In 1975, after Nskoy The September Revolution He was a refugee from Iran and settled in Karaj near Tehran. In 1995, he was martyred in the civil war in Kesnazani area of Erbil with his son Hamza.
The struggle
In 1943, he took up arms in the Second Barzan Revolution (1943-1945) and participated in most of the battles. 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 and Barzani's return from East Kurdistan to South Kurdistan, he participated in the defensive battles in East Kurdistan until he surrendered on April 19, 1947 on the Iran-Iraq border with General Mustafa Barzani has been. On May 6, 1947, General Mustafa Barzani 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 Kotol 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 the military camp of Barzani's comrades 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 Abdul Karim Qasim. On April 16, 1959, Ali Shaban returned to Kurdistan with his comrades on the ship Georgia via the port of Basra in the south of the Iraqi Republic.
At the beginning of the September Revolution in 1961, Ali Shaban returned to the ranks of the Peshmergas of the Great September Revolution under the leadership of the president Mustafa Barzani was. Ali Shaban participated in all the battles in Barzan when the enemy launched a heavy attack Mustafa Barzani He became the first head of Barzani's headquarters and played a significant role in providing Peshmerga headquarters in Barzan, Rekan, Barurai, Mazuri, Doski, Sindhi, Dinarita, Syedkan and Balak.
In 1963, by order of the President Mustafa Barzani He went to Betwata region and became commander of Betwata battalion. In the Great September Revolution by order of the President Mustafa Barzani He was appointed as the commander of the Betwata force in the border of Khoshnawiti and Betwin and participated in several battles and confrontations with the enemy. He played a great role in the revolution in terms of administration, military and social. During the Great September Revolution, in addition to the battalion commander, the president's representative Mustafa Barzani He paid great attention to the development of Khoshnawiti and Betwin by building roads, bridges and public places such as Dardashir Road and Sauseokan Road, which is still called Ali Shaban Road.
In 1970, after the March 11, 1970 agreement and the formation of the border guard forces in Balisan, he became the commander of the battalion.
After the victory of the Iranian People's Revolution over the Shah of Iran on February 11, 1979, Ali Shaban returned to East Kurdistan and in 1979, after the Ninth Congress, he became the commander of the 15th Force. role obviously had in The May Revolution . . . . He participated in the 1991 uprising and had several responsibilities after the uprising. On 14 December 1995, he and his son Hamza were martyred in the civil war in Kesnazani, Erbil.
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1- Khabat newspaper, Wednesday, September 19, 2007, Part 1, page 5, The role of martyr Commander Ali Shaban in the Great September Revolution, Safar Yousef Mirkhan Zhazhuki.
2- Khabat newspaper, Thursday, September 20, 2007, Part 2, page 5, The role of martyr Commander Ali Shaban in the Great September Revolution, Safar Yousef Mirkhan Zhazhuki.
3- Archive of the Encyclopedia Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.
