Biography

Salih Tahir Khaziran was born in 1927 in the village of Silke, affiliated with the Shirwan Mazn sub-district in the Mergasor district of Erbil province. On June 21, 1932, he became a refugee in the Republic of Turkey. His father, Tahir Khaziran, was martyred on February 22, 1936, at the Shit River. Salih Khaziran studied in the Soviet Union and received an institute diploma in the forestry department. After returning from the Soviet Union, in 1959, he was employed as an official in the Rawanduz Forestry Department. He knew three languages: Kurdish, Arabic, and Russian.

Struggle Record

In 1943, he joined the ranks of the Second Barzan Revolution and participated in the capture of the Argosh, Pindro, and Wilati Zheri police stations. On October 15, 1943, he participated in the capture of the Birekepra police station, and on October 2, 1943, he participated in the capture of the Shanadari police station. On August 19, 1945, by order of the Iraqi military martial court, all his movable and immovable property was seized. 

On October 11, 1945, after the defeat of the Second Barzan Revolution, he headed with his family to Eastern Kurdistan. On March 31, 1946, he became a Peshmerga in the Barzani force affiliated with the army of the Republic of Kurdistan in Mahabad. On April 29, 1946, he participated in the Battle of Qarawa in the Saqqez region. After the defeat of the Republic of Kurdistan, on March 13-14, 1947, he participated in the Battle of Gujar, on March 19 he participated in the battles of Naghadeh and Oshnavieh, and on March 25 he participated in the battles of Hevers and Haleji. He also participated in the battles of Bukan, Margawar, and Talawar.

 He was among the Peshmerga who returned to the Shirwan and Mazuri region through the Khwakurk route and the Barazgir plain to the territory of Northern Kurdistan on April 19, 1947. 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 his 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 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 like prisoners of war in terms of food, clothing, and movement. Later, by 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 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 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.

After the poor treatment of the Barzani companions by Jafar Baghirov, 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 among the collective villages of the Soviet Union and worked on the collective farms (Kolkhoz) (the lands that people rented from the government and later gave the government's share back). 

After much effort and sending several letters by General Barzani to Stalin, a letter finally reached Stalin in which Barzani described the hardships of his companions. He immediately ordered the formation of a committee to investigate the situation of the Barzani companions, and the committee's decision was that they should all be gathered in the city of Vriviski. Therefore, he 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, and according to both the third and seventh articles and paragraph (A) of the tenth article, and by implementing Article (11) based on the amended Law No. 19 of 1959, he and his companions were granted a general amnesty. 

In 1958, the Republic of Iraq was established under the presidency of Abd al-Karim Qasim. On April 16, 1959, he returned to Kurdistan with his companions on the ship Grozia via the port of Basra in the south of the Republic of Iraq. 

In 1961, he participated in the Aylul Revolution and was a Deputy Head of Branch. He participated in the battles of Sari Pirs, Sari Akre, and Sari Lelkan, and was wounded in this battle. In 1975, after the defeat of the Aylul Revolution, he went to the Kingdom of Iran as a refugee. In 1978, he returned to Kurdistan and was later deported by the Iraqi government to the Harir compound. On July 31, 1983, during the Anfal operation of the Barzanis, he was disappeared by the Iraqi government in the Harir compound.

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