Officer and politician, Mirhaj Ahmad Tahir, also known as Mirhaj Akreyi, was a member of the Darkar Association in 1939 and joined the ranks of the Kurdish Hope Party on May 7, 1939. In 1944, he was among the participants of the revolution Barzan II (1943-1945), in 1946 he was a member of the founding committee and central executive committee of the Kurdish Democratic Party (founded the congress), in 1948 he was a member of the leadership of South-East Kurdistan (Baku Conference). In 1953, he was elected as a member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) at the third congress. .
Biography
Mirhaj Ahmad Tahir was born in 1911 in Akre, Mosul province. He completed his primary education in 1923. In 1923 he moved to Baghdad to study secondary education. In 1929 he completed his secondary education in Baghdad He graduated from the Baghdad Teachers College in 1931. In 1931 he was employed as a primary school teacher in Baghdad. In 1935 he became a student at the Baghdad Military College On September 15, 1936, he graduated from the 15th round of the Baghdad Military College with the rank of second lieutenant. On July 4, 1937, he graduated with the rank of second lieutenant in artillery and received a military bachelor's degree He graduated from the army in 1939 and became a first lieutenant. In 1943 he was promoted to lieutenant in the Iraqi army.. He attended artillery and aviation courses as part of his military service. He was fluent in Kurdish, Arabic, Turkish, English, Russian and Persian. . . .
The struggle
In 1939 he became a member of the Darker Association and on May 7, 1939 he joined the ranks of the Kurdish Hope Party Mustafa Khoshnaw (1912-1947) He attended the founding meeting of the Kurdish Revival Society (KRS) in. In August 1943, he accompanied Mustafa Mustafa Mustafa (1912-1947), also known as Mustafa Khoshnaw, a member of the Kurdish Hope Party delegation to meet with Soviet officials and Kurdish personalities In June 1944, he visited Urmia to contact the Soviet authorities and Kurdish revolutionaries in East Kurdistan. In December 1944, he met with Mustafa Khoshnaw in Urmia Lieutenant Vilchevsky, Stalin's special representative for Iranian and Kurdish affairs, arrived in Tehran to coordinate and support the Kurdish cause On December 25, 1944, he was the liaison officer of the Iraqi authorities with the revolutionaries of the Second Barzan Revolution (1943-1945) on the Akre front in Mosul province Mustafa Barzani Demand Kurdish rights.
In 1944, he was a friend Mustafa Khoshnaw and Aziz Shamzini They met with Mustafa Barzani on behalf of the Kurdish Hope Party and discussed their cooperation..In 1944, he was arrested by the Iraqi army in Ammar prison on charges of supporting the Second Barzan Revolution. On April 28, 1945, he escaped from Baghdad through Mohammed Amin Agha of Akre He fled from Mosul to Akre town and then crossed to Barzan region, the center of the Second Barzan Revolution. On May 1, 1945, he arrived in the liberated areas of the Second Barzan Revolution and joined the ranks of the Second Barzan Revolution. In 1945, he was one of the founders of the Azadi Committee during the Second Barzan Revolution. On August 19, 1945, he was ordered to confiscate all his assets by the customary court for participating in the Second Barzan Revolution (1943-1945). On October 11, 1945, after the collapse of the Second Barzan Revolution, he was displaced to East Kurdistan. On March 21, 1946, he accompanied a general to Mahabad Mustafa Barzani In 1946, he was the commander of the third battalion of the Barzan force on the Saqiz front in the Kurdistan Democratic Republic (East Kurdistan). In 1946, he accompanied the president Mustafa Barzani met with US diplomat Archie Roosevelt in Mahabad.
In 1946, he organized a private meeting for lawyer Rashid Ismail Aziz (1920-2001), also known as Rashid Bajalan, with Qazi Mohammed, the president of the Kurdistan Democratic Republic He was one of the founders of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP). He participated in the Battle of Mamsha against the Iranian army in 1946. In 1946, he was elected a member of the Central Executive Committee of the KDP In 1946, he was appointed as the commander of the 3rd Battalion of the Barzani Forces in the Kurdistan Democratic Republic Army The border between the two republics, in late 1946, during the collapse of the Kurdistan Democratic Republic, General Mustafa Barzani ordered the capture of Sain Qala in order to facilitate the retreat of the Barzan forces and the support forces of the Azerbaijani National Republic 21 December 1946: Member of the South Kurdistan negotiating delegation led by General Mustafa Barzani (1903-1979) He went to Tehran, the capital of Iran, with the Iranian, American and British authorities in order to return the southerners of Kurdistan to their homeland. In 1946, after the collapse of the Kurdistan Democratic Republic, he visited Peshawar Qazi Mohammad He tried not to surrender.
In 1946, after the collapse of the Kurdistan Democratic Republic, he was a member of the Kurdish delegation to negotiate with Sarhang Ghafari, the representative of the Iranian army He defended with General Mustafa Barzani and did not surrender to the Iraqi authorities, on May 28, 1947, under the supervision of the president Mustafa Barzani In 1948, he was appointed as a member of the South-East Kurdistan Leadership (Baku Conference). In 1953, he was elected a member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) in his absence. In the 1950s, he studied at the Political Institute of the Communist Party of Uzbekistan for three years and received a bachelor's degree He arrived in Prague airport on September 17, 1958. On September 19, 1958, he arrived in Cairo airport accompanied by President Mustafa Barzani The dome was welcomed by Jamal Abdul Nasser (1918-1970), in late September 1958, accompanied by the president Mustafa Barzani He laid a wreath at the grave of a missing Egyptian soldier in Cairo.
In 1958, when he returned to Baghdad with General Mustafa Barzani, the Iraqi Sovereign Council lifted his death sentence. On October 7, 1958, the Arabic-language newspaper Al-Hurriya published in the city Baghdad announced his return from the Soviet Union. In 1958, he strengthened his ties with most of the Kurdish officers of the Iraqi army and introduced them to President Mustafa Barzani, and in 1959 to Assad On April 18, 1958, he was appointed by President Mustafa Barzani to speak to the wives of Barzani's comrades to discuss their livelihoods in South Kurdistan and to voluntarily return Barzani's comrades arrived in Erbil and were welcomed by Sheikh Ahmad Barzan (1896-1969) and the people of the city. On this occasion, he read a speech to the people He was promoted to the rank of lieutenant in the Iraqi army.
On Saturday, April 18, 1959, he welcomed a train carrying Mustafa Barzani's comrades returning from the Soviet Union at the port of Basra in southern Iraq. On February 8, 1963, he delivered a speech Retired from the Iraqi army in 1977 by Ahmed Hassan Bakr (1914-1982). In 1979, he secretly attended a funeral for the president in Baghdad at his home Mustafa Barzani He died on November 13, 1988 in Baghdad and was buried in Pirbane cemetery in Akre town of Duhok province.
Source :
1. Archive of the Encyclopedia Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.
