Biography

Muhammad Mustafa was born in 1904 in the village of Argosh, affiliated with the Shirwan Mazn sub-district in the Mergasor district of Erbil Governorate. He passed away in the Soviet Union, and the news of Muhammad Mustafa's passing was announced by (Mustafa Barzani) to his family, who were living in the city of Sulaymaniyah at the time.

Struggle Record

In 1943, after his duty as an officer of the Silke police station in the Mizuri Bala region, he handed over the station with its weapons and ammunition to the revolutionaries, joined the Second Barzan Revolution (1943-1945), and also played an active role in the epics and heroism of the defense of the (Republic of Mahabad).

After the collapse of the Republic of Kurdistan, he was among the Peshmerga who returned on April 19, 1947, through the Khwakurk road and the Barazgar plain to the land of Northern Kurdistan, from the village of Khwakurk to the village of Argosh and the Herki Benezhe region.

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 towards the Soviet Union. There, all his companions decided to continue and go towards the Soviet Union.

 On May 22, 1947, he accompanied General Mustafa Barzani towards the Soviet Union and participated in the Battle of Gali 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, towards the Soviet Union..‌

After arriving in the Soviet Union, on June 19, 1947, along with all his companions in the city of Nakhchivan in the Republic of Azerbaijan, they were placed for forty days in an open-air complex surrounded by barbed wire and were guarded by a group of soldiers, and they 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, Ayulakh, and Kalbajar in the Republic of Azerbaijan. On December 10, 1947, they were transferred 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 trained in military exercises for eight hours a day. 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 bad treatment of Jafar Bagirov towards Barzani's companions, 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, and they continued their military training there. 

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 in the collective farms (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 described the hardships of his companions, and he immediately decided to form a committee to investigate the Situation of Barzani's companions, and finally the committee's decision was that they should all be gathered in the city of Vriviski, so Muhammad Mustafa Hassan went to the city of Vriviski in the Soviet Union in November 1951..

Source:

1- Archive of the Encyclopedia of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.