Biography

Said Mela Abdullah was born in the Year 1933 in the village of Shingil, affiliated with the Barzan sub-district in the Mergasor district of Erbil Governorate. He knew three languages: Kurdish, Arabic, and Russian. On July 31, 1983, during the Anfal operation of the Barzanis, he and his son, named Abdullah Said (1972-1983), were forcibly disappeared by the Iraqi government in the Qushtapa complex.

Struggle History

On October 11, 1945, after the collapse of the second Barzan revolution, he headed to Eastern Kurdistan. On March 31, 1946, he became a Peshmerga in the Barzan force affiliated with the army of the Republic of Kurdistan in Mahabad and participated in the battles of the Saqqez front in the Republic of Kurdistan.

 He was among the Peshmerga who returned to the Shirwan and Muzuri region through the territory of Northern Kurdistan on April 19, 1947, via (Khwakurk and the Barazgir plain). 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 to the Soviet Union. There, all the companions decided to continue and go to the Soviet Union. On May 23, 1947, he accompanied General Mustafa Barzani towards the Soviet Union and participated in the Battle of Gali Qotur and the Battle of 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 complex surrounded by barbed wire, 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, Ayolakh, 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, 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.

On March 13, 1949, along with Mela Mustafa Barzani and Ziyab Dar Ziyab, they were transported by plane to Chimbay on the Aral Sea. On September 1, 1951, he returned to Tashkent with Mela Mustafa Barzani.

In the Year 1958, the Republic of Iraq was established under the presidency of Abdul Karim Qasim. On April 16, 1959, he returned to Kurdistan with his companions via a trip to Georgia through 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 was displaced by the Iraqi government to southern Iraq and settled in the Diwaniya Governorate. In the Year 1980, he was transferred to the Qushtapa complex. On July 31, 1983, during the Anfal operation of the Barzanis, he and his son, named Abdullah Said (1972-1983), were forcibly disappeared by the Iraqi government in the Qushtapa complex.

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