Abdullah Saeed Ahmed was born in 1920 in the village of Khalani, affiliated with the Mazne sub-district in the Mergasor district of Erbil province, and passed away in 1989 in Margawar, Eastern Kurdistan.
Struggle RecordAbdullah Saeed Ahmed accompanied General Mustafa Barzani to the Soviet Union on May 23, 1947, and participated in the Battle of Qatur and the Battle of Maku Bridge. After much hardship and fatigue, on June 18, 1947, he crossed the Aras River, which is located on the border between Iran and the Soviet Union, into the Soviet Union.
After arriving in the Soviet Union, on June 19, 1947, he and all his companions were placed in an open-air compound surrounded by barbed wire in the city of Nakhchivan in the Republic of Azerbaijan for forty days. They were guarded by a group of soldiers and were treated like prisoners of war in terms of food, clothing, and movement. Later, by the decision of the Soviet government, they were distributed among the regions of Aghdam, Lachin, Ayulakh, and Kalbajar in the Republic of Azerbaijan. On December 10, 1947, they were moved to a military camp 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, under the supervision of the officers of the Republic of Azerbaijan, were given eight hours of military training daily. At the same time, they were taught Kurdish language lessons daily for four hours by some of their companions who were literate.
After Jafar Bagirov's mistreatment of the companions, it was decided to move the military camp on August 29, 1948, from the Republic of Azerbaijan to the Charchuk compound near Tashkent, the capital of the Republic of Uzbekistan, where they continued their military training.
In March 1949, he and his companions were distributed in groups and squads by train among the collective villages of the Soviet Union and worked on the collective farms (Kolkhozes) (lands that people took back from the government and later gave the government's share back).
After much effort and sending several letters by General Barzani to Stalin, a letter finally reached Stalin in which Barzani described the hardships of his companions, and he immediately decided to form a committee to investigate the situation of Barzani's companions, and the committee's final decision was that they should all be gathered in the city of Vrevsky, so he went to the city of Vrevsky in the Soviet Union in November 1951.
In 1958, the Republic government in Iraq was established under the leadership of Abdul Karim Qasim, so he returned to Kurdistan on April 16, 1959, with his companions by the ship Gruzia via the port of Basra in the south of the Republic of Iraq.
In the year 1962, he participated in the Aylul Revolution and participated in the battles. In 1983, he went to the country of Iran as a refugee and in the same year participated in the Gulan Revolution and participated in the battles with the rank of Sergeant.
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