Biography

He was born in 1924 in the village of Hesin Bekra, which belongs to the Derelok sub-district of the Amedi district in the Duhok governorate. He studied in the Soviet Union and received a Bachelor's degree in agriculture from Tashkent University. While in the Soviet Union, he married Sunds Sina Bilav and they had a son named Yusuf Sadiq. After returning from the Soviet Union in 1959, Sadiq Bakhshi worked at the Mosul Agriculture Office. He retired in 1993 after the uprising of the people of Kurdistan and passed away in Duhok on August 12, 1998.

Work History

Sadiq Bakhshi joined the ranks of the Second Barzan Revolution in 1943 (1943-1945). On October 2, he participated in the capture of the Shaneder police station, and on October 15, he participated in the capture of the Birakepra police station. On August 19, 1945, by the decision of the Iraqi Military Court, all his movable and immovable property was confiscated. On September 5 of the same year, he participated in the capture of the Meydan Morike police station.

After the defeat of the Second Barzan Revolution, he crossed into East Kurdistan on October 11, 1945. On March 31, 1946, he became a Peshmerga within the Barzani forces of the Army of the Republic of Kurdistan in Mahabad. After the collapse of the Republic of Kurdistan, he participated in the battle of Shino and Nexede on March 19, 1947.

He was one of the Peshmerga who returned to the Sherwan and Mizuri regions on April 19, 1947, via Xwakurk and the Berazgir Plain through North Kurdistan.

After their return, General Mustafa Barzani held a meeting with his comrades in the village of Ergoş on May 15, 1947, and gave them the choice to stay or go to the Soviet Union. There, all his comrades decided to continue and go to the Soviet Union. On May 22, 1947, along with General Mustafa Barzani he went towards the Soviet Union and participated in the battle of the Qitur valley and the battle of the Mako bridge. After many hardships and difficulties, on June 18, 1947, he crossed the Aras River on the border between Iran and the Soviet Union into the Soviet Union.

After their arrival in the Soviet Union, on June 19, 1947, he and all his comrades were placed in a closed camp in the city of Nakhchivan in the Republic of Azerbaijan for forty days, 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 transportation. Later, by the decision of the Soviet state, they were distributed in Azerbaijan to the regions of Aghdam, Lachin, Ayulax, and Kalbajar. On December 10, 1947, they were transferred to a military base 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 underwent 8 hours of military training daily under the supervision of officers of the Republic of Azerbaijan. At the same time, they received four hours of Kurdish language lessons daily from some of their educated comrades.

After the poor treatment of his comrades by Jafar Bakirov, it was decided on August 29, 1948, to move the military camp from the Republic of Azerbaijan to the Chirchuk community near Tashkent, the capital of the Republic of Uzbekistan, where they continued their military training.

In March 1949, he and his comrades were distributed in groups by train to the villages of the Soviet Union and worked on collective farms (lands that people had received from the state and then gave a share to the government).

After much effort and sending several letters from General Barzani to Stalin, a letter finally reached Stalin in which Barzani described the pain and suffering of his comrades. He immediately ordered the formation of a committee to investigate the situation of Barzani's comrades, and in the end, the committee's decision was to gather them all in the city of Vriviski. For this reason, the aforementioned went to the city of Vriviski 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 articles 3 and 7, paragraph (a) of article 10, and article 11 of the amendment law number 19 of 1959, a general amnesty was granted to him and his comrades.

In 1958, the Republic of Iraq was established under the leadership of Abd al-Karim Qasim. On April 16, 1959, the aforementioned returned to Kurdistan with his comrades via the ship Girozya through the port of Basra in the south of the Republic of Iraq.

In 1961, he participated in the September Revolution , participated in the battles of the Bilbil Bridge and Sersing, participated in the battle of the Silevane Plain on November 23, and participated in the battle of the Zawite valley from December 7 to 12. After the March 11, 1970 agreement, he became the representative of the Barzan Sheikhs in the Ze Plain.

In 1975, after the defeat of the September Revolution he returned to his village. From December 25, 1985, to February 15, 1987, he was arrested several times by the Iraqi government. In 1991, he participated in the uprising in the city of Duhok. 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 road to the Soviet Union, the September Revolution, Gulan Revolution and the uprisings, he was awarded the medal of the Immortal Barzani by President Masoud Barzani .

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