Pirmoos Omar was born in the Year 1916 in the village of Harur, which belongs to the Kani Masi sub-district in the Amadiya district of Duhok Governorate. After arriving in the Soviet Union, he was unable to join the university due to his age, so he continued to work. He married twice in the Soviet Union; the first was with Khadija, and they had a daughter named (Khalida). When he returned to Kurdistan, Khadija refused to return with him. He married for the second time to (Sadiqia Nishan Muhammad), who was from the Republic of Azerbaijan, and they were blessed with two daughters and a son (Ramadan Pirmoos), who was born in the Year 1955. In the Year 1977, after the setback of Aylul Revolution he was moved by the Iraqi government to Kani Masi, and in the Year 1977 he was moved to the Telkeber complex. He then resided for five years in (Chish), then moved to (Jam Seda). He sought refuge with his family to live in one of the caves during the attacks launched by the Iraqi government and stayed there for two years. He passed away in the city of Zakho on 23 March 1997.
Struggle PagesPirmoos Omar joined the ranks of the Second Revolution of Barzan in the Year 1943 and participated in the battles of Bley, Rezan, and Barzan. On 6 November 1943, he participated in the seizure of the Gortu police station. On 19 August 1945, all his movable and immovable property was confiscated by order of the Iraqi Military Court. On 5 September 1945, he participated in the seizure of the Meydan Morik police station. On 11 November 1945, after the setback of the Second Revolution of Barzan, he crossed with Mustafa Barzani and his comrades into East Kurdistan. After the establishment of the Democratic Republic of Kurdistan in Mahabad, he defended the Republic on 31 March 1946 as part of the Barzan force.
After the collapse of the Republic of Kurdistan in Mahabad and the return of Barzani from East Kurdistan to South Kurdistan, he participated in the battles of Naghadeh and Oshnavieh in East Kurdistan. He was among his Peshmerga comrades, returning on 19/4/1947 via (Xwakurk and the Barazgera plain), crossing the lands of North Kurdistan to the Shirwan and Mizuri regions.
After their return, General Mustafa Barzani held a meeting with his comrades in the village of Arkush on 15/5/1947 and gave them the choice to stay or go to the Soviet Union. There, all his comrades decided to continue and head to the Soviet Union. On 23 May 1947, he accompanied General Mustafa Barzani to the Soviet Union. He participated in the battles of Qotur and the Maku Bridge, and after great hardship and severe exhaustion, he crossed the Aras River on 18 June 1947, which is located on the border between Iran and the Soviet Union.
After their arrival in the Soviet Union, on 19 June 1947, he and all his comrades were detained in the city of Nakhchivan in the Republic of Azerbaijan for forty days in an open compound surrounded by barbed wire guarded by soldiers. They were treated as prisoners of war in terms of food, clothing, and transportation. By a decision of the Soviet government, they were later distributed to the regions of Aghdam, Lachin, Yevlakh, and Kalbajar in the Republic of Azerbaijan. On 10 December 1947, they were moved to a camp on the Caspian Sea in the capital of the Azerbaijani Republic, Baku. On the 23rd of the same month, they received military uniforms, and they received military training for eight hours daily under the supervision of officers from the Republic of Azerbaijan. At the same time, they were receiving lessons in learning the Kurdish language for four hours daily from some of their educated comrades.
After the mistreatment of his comrades by Jafar Baghirov, Barzani decided to move his military gathering from Azerbaijan on 29 August 1948 to the Jarjuk complex near the Uzbek capital, Tashkent, where they continued their military training.
In March 1949, he and his comrades were distributed in groups by train to the collective villages in the Soviet Union and worked on the Kolkhoz farms (land that people would rent from the government and then pay a share to the government).
After great efforts and sending several letters from General Barzani to Stalin, Stalin finally received a letter in which Barzani spoke about the suffering of his comrades, and he immediately decided to form a committee to investigate the situation of Barzani's comrades. The committee's final decision was that they should be gathered in the city of Frivski, so he headed to the Soviet city of Frivski in November 1951.
After the 14 July 1958 revolution in Iraq and the return of General Mustafa Barzani, on 25 February 1959, he and his comrades were included in the general amnesty according to Articles (3) and (7), paragraph (a) of Article (10), and the implementation of Article (11) under the amended Law No. (19) of the Year 1959.
In the Year 1958, the Republic of Iraq was established under the leadership of Abd al-Karim Qasim. He returned with his comrades on 16 April 1959 to Kurdistan aboard the ship Gruzia via the port of Basra in the south of the Republic of Iraq. He resided in Erbil, and after months he headed to Amadiya and then to Harur and Siyartoyka.
He participated in the Year 1961 in Aylul Revolution, he sought refuge in Turkey in the Year 1988 during the start of the Anfal operation by the Iraqi government to the Badinan region, and lived in (Arosh). He was later settled in the Mush and Mardin complex in North Kurdistan. In the Year 1992, he returned to South Kurdistan, and on 16 August 1996, he was awarded the Barzani Medal by President Masoud Barzani within the framework of the Golden Jubilee celebrations, in appreciation of his struggle and sacrifices in the Second Revolution of Barzan, and in the Democratic Republic of Kurdistan, and his accompaniment of General Mustafa Barzani to the Soviet Union, as well as his participation in Aylul Revolution.
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