Biography

Ali Hamdi Musa Abbas, who is also known as Ali Beduhi, was born in 1918 in the Duhok Governorate. He completed his high school education in the city of Duhok. In 1940, he was appointed as an official in the Land Registry (registration of houses and properties) administration in Baghdad. In 1953, the Kifri Land Registry administration was transferred, and in 1953 he was appointed as the director of the Kifri Land Registry, which was affiliated with the Kirkuk Governorate. He was a contributor to the Kurdish magazine Hawar, which was published in Damascus. He passed away in 1966 under mysterious circumstances. He was fluent in Kurdish and Arabic.

Work History

In 1939, he joined the ranks of the Kurdish Hiwa Party. In 1941, he supported the Rashid Ali al-Gaylani movement, and after the movement's defeat, he spent a year in prison. In 1944, he was the head of the Baghdad district committee of the Kurdish Hiwa Party. In August 1944, he attempted to free the Kurdish activist from Western Kurdistan, Nuredin Zaza, from Baghdad prison. In 1945, the first congress of the Kurdish Rizgari Party was held secretly at his home in Baghdad, and he was a delegate there. In 1945, the newspaper Rizgari, the organ of the Kurdish Rizgari Party, was printed secretly at his home. In 1945, he was a cadre of the Kurdish Rizgari Party. In 1946, he was a delegate to the second congress of the Kurdish Rizgari Party in Baghdad, with the aim of dissolving the party and merging it with the Kurdistan Democratic Party.

In 1946, he joined the Kurdistan Democratic Party and became a delegate to the first congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the city of Baghdad. In the years (1946-1949), he was appointed as the head of the Baghdad district committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. In 1951, the second congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party was held at his home in the city of Baghdad, and he was a delegate there. In the years 1951-1952, he was the head of the press organization of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, which operated secretly in the city of Kirkuk, and the printing press was hidden in his home. In 1953, he was the first head of the Kifri district committee, which was affiliated with the third branch committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party – Iraq. In 1953, he was elected by the congress delegates as a member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party at the third congress.

In 1953, he supervised the organizations of the Kurdistan Democratic Party – Iraq in Kifri, Khanaqin, Tuz Khurmatu, Jalawla, and Kalar in the Kirkuk and Diyala governorates. In 1959, he was a delegate to the Fourth Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) in the city of Baghdad. In 1960, he won the election for delegates to the fifth congress in Kifri with the votes of the Kurdistan Democratic Party – Iraq voters. On Saturday, February 8, 1960, he was elected by the congress delegates as a member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party at the fifth congress. In 1960, he was the head of the Kifri district committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. In the early 1960s, he was exiled from the town of Kifri to the town of Shatra in the Nasiriyah Governorate in southern Iraq. In 1961, at the beginning of the September Revolution , he was appointed from the eighth group as the head of the first branch committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. In 1961, he was engaged in secret party organizational work in Erbil.

In 1961, he was transferred to the town of Shatra in the Nasiriyah Governorate in southern Iraq, but he disobeyed the order and was arrested by the police and imprisoned in the city of Kifri. With the help of the Kurdistan Democratic Party organizations, he escaped from prison to the liberated areas. In 1961, he joined the ranks of the Peshmerga Forces. In 1961, he participated in the broad meeting of Ewdalan and cast his vote for defense and revolution. In 1963, he became the head of the fourth branch committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. On February 14, 1964, as a representative of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, he participated in and supervised the fourth congress of the Kurdistan Students Union. He struggled under the codename Merdan. In 1964, he joined the ranks of the Peshmerga Forces for the second time. In 1964, due to his support for the decisions of the General Council of Mawet at the sixth congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, he was expelled from the ranks of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP). In 1964, in the village of Kani Mase in the Sulaymaniyah Governorate, he was arrested by Peshmerga forces on charges of supporting the Political Bureau faction and assisting Lieutenant Aziz Abdullah Abdulqadir (1919-1999), known as Dr. Said Aziz Shamzini, for delivering letters from opponents of the September Revolution, he was arrested for a temporary period. After his release, he passed away in 1966 under mysterious circumstances. He was fluent in Kurdish and Arabic.

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