Biography

Hassan Ahmed Naz was born in 1900 in the village of Shetne, affiliated with the Mazne sub-district in the Mergasor district of Erbil province. Before going to the Soviet Union, he was married and his wife's name was Maryam Ub; they had a son named Sadiq who was born in 1942. After going to the Soviet Union, in 1958 he married Khadija, who was from the Crimean Peninsula in Ukraine. His family, along with his son named Abdullah, returned to the Soviet Union in 1967 and settled in the Republic of Uzbekistan. He passed away in Mergasor in 1972.

Struggle Record

On October 11, 1945, 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, he defended the Republic within the framework of the Barzan force and participated in the battles of the Saqqez front.

After the fall of the Republic of Kurdistan in Mahabad and the return of  Barzani from Eastern Kurdistan to Southern Kurdistan, he was among the Peshmerga who returned to the Shirwani and Mizuri region on April 19, 1947, through (Xwakurk and the Dashti Barazgir) via the territory of Northern Kurdistan.

After their return, General Mustafa Barzani held a meeting with his companions on May 6, 1947, in the village of Argosh 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 accompanied General Mustafa Barzani towards the Soviet Union and participated in the Battle of Gali Qotur 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, towards the Soviet Union.

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

After the poor treatment of the companions by Jafar Bagirov, it was decided to move the military camp on August 29, 1948, from the Republic of Azerbaijan to the Charchuk complex near Tashkent, the capital of the Republic of Uzbekistan, where they continued their military training.

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 in the Kolkhoz fields (the lands that people rented from the government and later gave back the government's share).

After much effort and sending several letters by General Barzani to Stalin, finally a letter reached Stalin in which Barzani describes the hardships of his companions, and he immediately decides to form a committee to investigate the situation of Barzani's companions, and finally the committee's decision is 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.

After the July 14, 1958 revolution in Iraq and the return of General Mustafa Barzani on February 25, 1959, 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 1959, he and his companions were granted a general amnesty.

In 1958, the Republic of Iraq was established under the presidency of Abdul Karim Qasim. On April 16, 1959, along with his companions, he returned to Kurdistan by the ship Grozia via the port of Basra in the south of the Republic of Iraq. He lived in Shaqlawa for a while. In 1964, he participated in the Aylul Revolution and was a Sergeant and participated in the battles.

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