Biography

Ghazali Ibrahim Agha Chami was born in the year 1927 in the village of Chami in the Sherwan Mazn district of the Mergasor sub-district. At the request of Barzani to the authorities of the Soviet Union, he was accepted into the Agriculture Department of Tashkent University. After his return from the Soviet Union, in the year 1959, he became an employee at the Mosul Agriculture Directorate. In the year 1970, the March 11 Agreement was signed, and the aforementioned returned to his work in the Mosul Agriculture Administration. He passed away in the village of Chami in the year 2006.

Struggle Record

 In the year 1943, in the Second Barzan Revolution 1943-1945, he took up arms and participated in disarming the police stations of the villages of Sherwan Mazn and Birakapra. In the year 1945, he participated in the Battle of Maidan Morik.

On October 11, 1945, and after the collapse of the Second Barzan Revolution, along with Mustafa Barzani and his companions, he crossed into Eastern Kurdistan. After the establishment of the Republic of Kurdistan in Mahabad, on March 31, 1946, within the framework of the Barzan force, he defended the Republic.

After the fall of the Republic of Kurdistan and the return of Barzani from Eastern Kurdistan to Southern Kurdistan, he participated in the Battle of Naghadeh and the Battle of Oshnavieh in Eastern Kurdistan. He was also among the Peshmerga who, on April 19, 1947, returned through the Khwakurk route and the Barazgar plain through the territory of Northern Kurdistan to the Sherwan and Muzuri region in Southern Kurdistan.

After their return, General Mustafa Barzani held a meeting with his companions on March 15, 1947, in the village of Argosh and gave them the choice of staying or going towards the Soviet Union. There, all his companions decided to continue and go towards the Soviet Union. On May 23, 1947, he accompanied General Mustafa Barzani towards the Soviet Union and participated in the Battle of Gali Qotur (Kotol) and the Battle of Maku Bridge. After much hardship and fatigue, on June 18, 1947, at the Aras River, which is located on the border between Iran and the Soviet Union, he crossed into the Soviet Union.

After their arrival in the Soviet Union, on June 19, 1947, along with all his companions, he was placed in the city of Nakhchivan in the Republic of Azerbaijan for forty days in an open-air complex surrounded by barbed wire, and they were guarded by a group of soldiers. In terms of food, clothing, and movement, they were treated like prisoners of war. 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, they were given eight hours of military training daily. At the same time, for four hours daily, they were taught lessons in learning the Kurdish language by some of their companions who were literate.

After the poor treatment of his companions by Jafar Bagirov, it was decided that the military camp of Barzani's companions would be moved on August 29, 1948, from the Republic of Azerbaijan to the Charchuk complex near Tashkent, the capital of the Republic of Uzbekistan, and they continued their military training there.

In March 1949, along with his companions, they were distributed in groups and squads by train among the collective villages of the Soviet Union and worked on the collective farms (the lands that people rented 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. Eventually, the committee's decision was that they should all be gathered in the city of Vrevsky, so the aforementioned went to the city of Vrevsky 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, and according to both the third and seventh articles and paragraph (a) of the tenth article, and working with article (11) based on the amended Law No. 19 of the year 1959, he and his companions were covered by a general amnesty.

In the year 1958, the Republic of Iraq was established under the presidency of Abd al-Karim Qasim. The aforementioned returned to Kurdistan on April 16, 1959, with his companions by the ship Grozia via the port of Basra in the south of the Republic of Iraq. 

At the beginning of the Aylul Revolution in the year 1961, Ghazali Ibrahim returned to the ranks of the Peshmerga and was a Peshmerga with Ahmed Mustafa Kanyelnji until the March 11 Agreement. In the year 1974, when the Iraqi regime started a war against the Kurdish people, he returned once again to the ranks of Ahmed Mustafa Kanyelnji's Peshmerga.

After the collapse of the Aylul Revolution in the year 1975, the aforementioned crossed to the Ziwe camp in Eastern Kurdistan and was moved from there to Shahroud, and later he was settled in the Jahrom and Shahroud camps in Semnan Province.

In the year 1977, Ghazali returned to Ziwe on the recommendation of Idris Barzani. He was with the Barzan force as a detachment and they came back to the Gali Rash and Barzan regions.

In the year 1991, along with the forces of the Barzan force under the command of Dr. Saeed Ahmed, he participated in the Uprising and the Battle of Kore. Because of his struggle and resistance in the Second Barzan Revolution, the Republic of Kurdistan, the path towards the Soviet Union, and both the Aylul and Gulan revolutions, he was awarded the Barzani Medal by President Masoud Barzani, and he passed away on September 20, 2006, in the village of Chami.

Source:

 1- Archive of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Encyclopedia Board.