Taha Yasin Shakur, born in the year 1919 in the village of Miroz, affiliated with the Shirwan Mazin sub-district in the Mergasor district of Erbil Governorate. He was married to (Masrikhan Aziz Ahmed) before his departure to the Soviet Union and had a son with her. After his return from the Soviet Union, he was an employee with Majid Bosi in the forests of Akre in the year 1960. He was deported in the year 1978 by the Ba'athist regime from the village of Miroz to the Korto complex, and he was also deported again in the year 1990 to the Shakhulan complex. He was fluent in (Kurd, Russian, and Turkish) languages. He died on September 18, 1993, in the Shakhulan complex, and was buried in the same village.
Struggle PagesHe accompanied Taha Yasin Shakur on May 23, 1947, General Mustafa Barzani to the Soviet Union, and participated in the battles of Qotur and Maku Bridge. After great hardship and severe exhaustion, he crossed the Aras River on June 18, 1947, which is located on the border between Iran and the Soviet Union.
and the Soviet Union.
After their arrival in the Soviet Union, on June 19, 1947, he and all his comrades were detained in 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, Ayolakh, and Kalbajar in the Republic of Azerbaijan. On December 10, 1947, they were moved to a camp on the Caspian Sea in the capital of the Azerbaijani Republic, Baku, and on the 23rd of the same month, they received military uniforms. They were receiving military training for eight hours daily under the supervision of officers from the Republic of Azerbaijan, and at the same time, they were receiving lessons in the Kurd language for four hours daily by some of their educated comrades.
After Jafar Baghirov's mistreatment of his comrades, Barzani decided to move his military gathering from the Republic of Azerbaijan on August 29, 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 collective villages in the Soviet Union and worked on Kolkhoz farms (land that people would rent from the government and then pay a share to the government from it).
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 Frivsky, so he headed in November 1951 to the Soviet city of Frivsky.
After the July 14, 1958 revolution and the return of General Mustafa Barzani on February 25, 1959, he and his comrades were included in the general amnesty according to Articles (3) and (7) and Paragraph (A) of Article (10) and the implementation of Article (11) under Law No. (19) as amended for the year 1959.
The Republic of Iraq was established in the year 1958 under the leadership of Abd al-Karim Qasim, and he returned with his comrades on April 16, 1959, to Kurdistan on the ship Gruzia via the port of Basra in the south of the Republic of Iraq.
He participated in Aylul Revolution in the year 1961, and in the battles of Geli Sbi, Zawita, Ain Zala, Mount Atrush, Matin, and the peaks of Safin. He was appointed as a military Commander replacing Hashim Mirozi, and served in the years (1970-1975) at the Barzani Headquarters in Dilman.
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