Biography

Asad Rasho Mullah Hamza was born in 1932 in Mergasuri district of Erbil province. After going to the Soviet Union, he entered Tashkent Agricultural University in 1954. He died on June 25, 2020 in Khoshkan village and was buried in Mergasur district cemetery.

The struggle

 On October 11, 1945, after the collapse of the Second Barzan Revolution, he moved to East Kurdistan. On March 31, 1946, he served as a Peshmerga in the Barzan force of the Kurdistan Democratic Republic Army. He participated in the battles of the Saqiz Front in the Kurdistan Democratic Republic with his brother Mirza Agha. After the collapse of the Kurdistan Democratic Republic on March 19, 1947, he participated in the battle of Naghdeh and Shino in East Kurdistan. He was one of the Peshmergas who returned to Sherwan and Mazuri on April 19, 1947 via Khawkurk and Dashti Barazgar.

After their return, Genl Mustafa Barzani On May 6, 1947, he held a meeting with his comrades in the village of Argosh and instructed them to stay or go to the Soviet Union Mustafa Barzani He participated in the Battle of Qtur People and the Battle of Mako Bridge. After much hardship and fatigue, he crossed the Aras River on June 18, 1947, which is located 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 the mistreatment of his comrades, Jafar Bakirov decided to move his 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 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 the general Mustafa BarzaniOn February 25, 1959, he and his comrades were granted a general amnesty under Articles 3 and 7, paragraph (a) of Article 10 and Article 11 of the 1959 Amended Law.

In 1958, the Iraqi Republic 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. 

Due to participatory disease The September Revolutionhasn't done it. In 1975 he settled in Ruandz, in 1987 he moved to Sardaw community and in 1991 he returned to Khoshkan village during the uprising. In 2010, at the 13th Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), he was awarded the Path to the Soviet Union by the President for his struggle and resistance in the Republic of Mahabad Massoud BarzaniHe was awarded the Immortal Barzani Medal. He died on June 25, 2020 in Khoshkan village and was buried in Mergasur district cemetery.

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