Biography

He was born in 1920 in the village of Babke in the Piran district, which is part of the Mergasor district of Erbil province. After going to the Soviet Union, he married and had two children.

After returning from the Soviet Union, Abdulrahim Abdullah worked at the Erbil Agriculture Office in 1959. After the failure of the revolution and his migration to Iran, he returned to South Kurdistan in 1976 and was settled in Kani Qirjale, then went to the city of Kelek. He knew Kurdish, Arabic, and Russian well. He passed away on January 13, 2005, in Erbil and was buried in the Babke cemetery.

Work History

In 1943, he joined the ranks of the Second Barzan Revolution and participated in the fighting. On August 19, 1945, by the decision of the Iraqi Military Urfi Court, all his movable and immovable property was confiscated.

After the collapse of the Second Barzan Revolution on October 11, 1945, he crossed into East Kurdistan. On March 31, 1946, he became a Peshmerga among the Barzani forces of the Army of the Republic of Kurdistan in Mahabad and participated in the battles of the Saqqez Front of the Republic of Kurdistan.

After the collapse of the Republic of Kurdistan in Mahabad and the return of Barzani from East Kurdistan to South Kurdistan, he was one of the Peshmerga who returned to the Sherwan and Mizuri regions on April 19, 1947, through (Xwakurk and the Berazgir Plain) via the territory of North Kurdistan.

After their return, General Mustafa Barzani held a meeting with his companions in the village of Ergoş on May 15, 1947, and gave them the choice 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 Qitur 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, 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 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 in groups by train to the villages of the Soviet Union and worked on collective farms (lands that people had received from the state and then 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. Therefore, the aforementioned went to the city of Vriviski in the Soviet Union in November 1951.

After the July 14, 1958 revolution in Iraq and the return of General Mustafa Barzani, on February 25, 1959, according to points 3 and 7 and paragraph (a) of point 10 and point 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 Abdul Karim Qasim. The aforementioned returned to Kurdistan on April 16, 1959, with his companions on the ship Grozia via the port of Basra in the south of the Republic of Iraq.

In 1961, he participated in the September Revolution and participated in the fighting. In 1975, after the collapse of the September Revolution he went to Iran as a refugee. In 1991, he participated in the uprising.

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