Biography

Hso Mala was born in 1920 in the village of Vazhi, affiliated with the Piran sub-district in the Mergasor district of Erbil Governorate. He studied in the Soviet Union and received an institute diploma in the agriculture department. It was in the Soviet Union that he married Amshir Said Jalilov. Hso Mala knew the Kurdish, Persian, and Russian languages. He passed away on 11 of June 2011 in the village of Vazhi and was buried there.

Struggle History

On 11 of October 1945, after the collapse of the second Barzan revolution, he and his family crossed over to Eastern Kurdistan. After the establishment of the Republic of Kurdistan in Mahabad, on 31 of March 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, he was among the Peshmerga who returned to the Shirwan and Mazuri region on 19 of April 1974 through (Khwakurk and the Bazargar plain) via the territory of Northern Kurdistan.

After their return, General Mustafa Barzani held a meeting with his companions on 6 of May 1947 in the village of Argosh and gave them the choice of staying or going to the Soviet Union. There, all his companions decided to continue and go to the Soviet Union. On 23 of May 1947, he accompanied General Mustafa Barzani towards the Soviet Union and participated in the Battle of Qotur Valley and the Battle of Maku Bridge. After much hardship and fatigue, on 18 of June 1947, he crossed into the Soviet Union at the Aras River, which is located on the border between Iran and the Soviet Union.

After arriving in the Soviet Union, on 19 of June 1947, he and all his companions 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 10 of December 1947, they were transferred to a military camp on the Caspian Sea in Baku, the capital of the Republic of Azerbaijan, and on 23 of the same month, they were given military uniforms and, under the supervision of officers of the Republic of Azerbaijan, 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 his companions by Jafar Baghirov, it was decided to move the military camp on 29 of August 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, he and his companions 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 the sending of 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 Vriviski, so he went to the city of Vriviski in the Soviet Union in November 1951.

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

 In the year 1961, he participated in the Aylul Revolution and participated in the battles. In the year 1975, after the collapse of the Aylul Revolution, he went to Iran as a refugee. In the year 1976, he participated in the Gulan Revolution and participated in the battles. In the year 2000, he returned to Kurdistan.

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