Biography

Hassan Khal Hamza Mala was born in 1930 in the Mergasor district of Erbil province. His mother's name was Asmar Hassan, and she passed away in 1946 in Mahabad due to typhoid fever. Hassan studied in the Soviet Union and received a diploma from the Industrial Institute in the oil refining department in Moscow. In 1959, after returning from the Soviet Union, he resided in Mosul and was later employed as an engineer at the sugar factory in Mosul. In 1979, his father, Khal Hamza, was forcibly displaced by the government of Iraq to southern Iraq and was settled in the Afak district of Diwaniya province. Due to the poor weather conditions and contaminated water, he passed away on July 11, 1998, and was buried in the Mergasor cemetery.

Struggle History

In 1943, he joined the ranks of the Second Barzan Revolution. On October 12, 1943, he participated in the capture of the Kherazok police station. On August 19, 1945, by order of the Iraqi military tribunal, all his movable and immovable property was seized. On September 5, 1945, he participated in the capture of the Meydan Morik police station. In 1945, after the collapse of the Second Barzan Revolution, he participated in the battles of Mergasor, the Rawanduz front, and Girde Kawani.

 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. On April 29, 1946, he participated in the Battle of Qarawa in the Saqqez region. After the collapse of the Republic of Kurdistan, he participated in the battles of Galan Baran Diz and Mirawa. On the night of March 13-14, 1947, he participated in the Battle of Gujar, and on March 25, 1947, he participated in the Battle of Havers and Halaji. He was also among the Peshmerga who returned to the Shirwan and Mazuri region through Northern Kurdistan via the Khwakurk and Bazargir plain route on April 19, 1947.

After their return, General Mustafa Barzani held a meeting with his companions in the village of Argosh on May 6, 1947, and gave them the choice to stay or head toward the Soviet Union. There, all his companions decided to continue and head toward the Soviet Union. On May 23, 1947, he accompanied General Mustafa Barzani toward the Soviet Union and participated in the Battle of Gali Qotur and the Battle of the Maku Bridge. After much hardship and fatigue, on June 18, 1947, he crossed the Aras River, which lies on the border between Iran and the Soviet Union, into 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 compound 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 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. On the 23rd of the same month, they were given military uniforms, and under the supervision of officers of the Republic of Azerbaijan, they were given eight hours of military training daily. At the same time, for four hours daily, some of their companions who were literate taught them the Kurdish language.

After the poor treatment of his companions by Jafar Baghirov, 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, along with his companions, they were distributed in groups and squads by train among the collective farms of the Soviet Union and worked on the kolkhoz fields (lands that people rented from the government and later gave a share back to the government).

After much effort and the sending of several letters by General Barzani to Stalin, a letter finally reached Stalin in which Barzani described the hardships of his companions. He immediately ordered the formation of 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. Therefore, 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 by applying the eleventh article 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 Abd al-Karim Qasim. On April 16, 1959, he and his companions returned to Kurdistan via the port of Basra in southern Iraq on the ship Gruzia. 

 In 1961, he participated in the Aylul Revolution and participated in the battles of Pirs, Nehla, Sari Khazir, and Mriba. At the end of the same year, he participated in the battles of Zawita, Loman, and Swaratukan. In 1962, he was a Head of Branch in one of the independent branches of the Balak force. In the same year, he participated in the battles of Siako, Keleshin, Hiran, and Nazanin. On the night of June 14-15, 1963, he participated in the Battle of Sari Akre and the battles of Goraz, Meydan Morik, and Mazne. He was severely wounded in the Battle of Mazne and was sent to the Khaletozh hospital.

In 1966, he participated in the Zozik battle and was wounded for the second time in that battle. He was outside the country for two years, his right hand was amputated, and after his return, until 1975, he was appointed as the head of Mullah Mustafa's guard detail. After the collapse of the Aylul Revolution in 1975, he went to the Kingdom of Iran as a refugee and settled in Naqadeh, and later went to Karaj. In 1976, he participated in the Gulan Revolution and settled in Silvana in Eastern Kurdistan, and was a member of the advisory committee working with Idris Barzani and Masoud Barzani.

 He returned to Kurdistan in 1994. On August 16, 1996, within the framework of the Golden Jubilee celebrations, due to his struggle and resistance in the second Barzan revolution, the Republic of Kurdistan, the march towards the Soviet Union, Aylul Revolution and the Gulan Revolution, he was awarded the Barzani the Immortal medal by President Masoud Barzani. His final rank in the Peshmerga was Battalion Commander.

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