Biography

   Mirza Abdullah Mirxan was born in 1925 in the Mergasor district of Erbil province. He was married and knew the Kurdish and Russian languages. In 1945, he became a refugee in the country of Iran. In 1983, he was Anfalized by the Iraq regime in the Harir complex.  

Struggle Record

   In 1943, he joined the Second Barzan Revolution and was one of the fighters of the Barzan force in the Republic of Kurdistan in Mahabad, and participated in the battles against the attacks of the Iranian army on the Republic.

On May 22, 1947, he accompanied General Mustafa Barzani towards the Soviet Union and participated in the Battle of Kotol (Qotur) and the Battle of the 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, 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 as 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, Ayolakh, 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 Kurdish language lessons by some of their companions who were literate.

   After the bad treatment of Jafar Baghirov towards Barzani's companions, 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 to the collective villages of the Soviet Union and worked on the collective farms (Kolkhozes) (the lands that people rented from the government and later returned the government's share).

After much effort and sending several letters by General Barzani to Stalin, finally, a letter reached Stalin in which Barzani described the hardships of his companions, and he immediately ordered the formation of 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 Mirza Abdullah Mirxan went to the city of Vrevsky in the Soviet Union in November 1951.

In 1958, the Republic of Iraq was established under the presidency of Abdul Karim Qasim, and on April 16, 1959, Mirza Abdullah Mirxan returned to Kurdistan with his companions by the ship Gruzia via the port of Basra in the south of the Republic of Iraq.

In 1961, he joined the Peshmerga forces of the Aylul Revolution and participated in its battles. In 1983, he was Anfalized by the Iraq regime in the Harir complex. 

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