Biography

Abdullah Dawud Husên was born in the year 1921 in the village of Barzan, which belongs to the Barzan sub-district of the Mergasor district in Erbil province, and on June 21, 1932, he migrated with his family to the Republic of Turkey. After going to the Soviet Union, he married Gulnaz Abbas Seyfullah, and they had two sons and two daughters named Mihyeddîn Abdullah (1955), Behaeddîn Abdullah (1958), Muhteber Abdullah (1956), and Minewer Abdullah (1959). After returning to Kurdistan, Abdullah Dawud worked at the Agriculture Office of Shaqlawa in 1959, then moved to the Agriculture Directorate of Salahaddin, and later moved to the Agriculture Directorate of Barzan. He knew both Kurdish and Russian languages. He passed away on December 12, 2006, and was buried in the cemetery of the village of Barzan.

Work History

Abdullah Dawud Husên was a soldier in Pirdê in 1943 and held the rank of First Corporal. He deserted from the army and joined the Second Barzan Revolution. On October 2, 1943, he participated in the capture of the Shanader police base, on October 12 he participated in the capture of the Xêrzok police base, and on October 20 he participated in the capture of the Sherwan police base. On August 19, 1945, by the decision of the Iraqi Military Court, all his movable and immovable property was confiscated.

After the defeat of the Second Barzan Revolution, he crossed into East Kurdistan on October 11, 1945. On March 31, 1946, he was a Peshmerga within the Barzani Forces of the Army of the Republic of Kurdistan in Mahabad. He participated in the battles of Qelatan and Girki Shan, and on April 29, 1946, he participated in the battle of Qarawa in the Saqqez area. After the collapse of the Republic of Kurdistan, he participated in the battle of Nelos on March 3, 1947, and in the battle of Naqadeh and Oshnavieh on March 19, 1947. He was one of the Peshmerga who returned to the Sherwan and Mazuri regions via Xwakurk and the Berazger Plain through North Kurdistan on April 19, 1947.

After their return, General Mustafa Barzani held a meeting with his companions in the village of Ergoş on May 15, 1947, and left it to them to decide whether to stay or go to the Soviet Union. There, all his companions decided to continue and go to the Soviet Union. On May 23, 1947, he went towards the Soviet Union with General Mustafa Barzani and participated in the battle of the Qotur Valley and the battle of the Mako bridge. After many hardships and difficulties, on June 18, 1947, he crossed the Aras River on the border of Iran and the Soviet Union into the Soviet Union.

After their arrival in the Soviet Union, on June 19, 1947, he and all his companions were placed in a closed camp in the city of Nakhchivan in the Republic of Azerbaijan for forty days, which was surrounded by barbed wire. They were guarded by a group of soldiers and were treated like prisoners of war in terms of food, clothing, and transportation. Later, by the decision of the Soviet state, they were distributed in Azerbaijan in the regions of Aghdam, Lachin, Ayulax, and Kalbajar. On December 10, 1947, they were transferred to a military base on the Caspian Sea in Baku, the capital of the Republic of Azerbaijan, and on the 23rd of the same month, they were given military uniforms and underwent 8 hours of military training daily under the supervision of the officers of the Republic of Azerbaijan. At the same time, they received four hours of Kurdish language lessons daily from some of their educated companions.

After the bad treatment of Jafar Bakirov towards his companions, it was decided on August 29, 1948, to move the military camp from the Republic of Azerbaijan to the Chirchuk community near Tashkent, the capital of the Republic of Uzbekistan, and they continued their military training there.

In March 1949, he and his companions were distributed by train in groups to the villages of the Soviet Union and worked on collective farms (lands that people had received from the state and later gave a share to the government).

After much effort and sending several letters from General Barzani to Stalin, finally a letter reached Stalin in which Barzani described the pain and suffering of his companions, and he immediately ordered the formation of a committee to investigate the situation of Barzani's companions. In the end, the committee's decision was to gather them all in the city of Vriviski, and for this reason, the aforementioned went to the city of Vriviski in the Soviet Union in November 1951.

After the revolution of July 14, 1958, in Iraq and the return of General Mustafa Barzani, on February 25, 1959, according to clauses 3 and 7, paragraph (a) of clause 10, and clause 11 of the 1959 amendment law, a general amnesty was granted to him and his companions.

In 1958, the Republic of Iraq was established under the leadership of Abd al-Karim Qasim. Abdullah Dawud Husên returned to Kurdistan on April 16, 1959, with his companions via the ship Girozya through the port of Basra in the south of the Republic of Iraq.

In the year 1961, he participated in the September Revolution and participated in the battles of the Nehri Valley, Akre, Pirs, and Sariji Mela between Bili and Barzan. In 1975, after the defeat of the September Revolution, he went to Iran as a refugee and settled in the city of Yazd. He returned to Kurdistan in 1998.

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