Biography

Tajadin was born in 1919 in the village of Kalok, affiliated with the Piran sub-district in the Mergasor district of Erbil Governorate. Before going to the Soviet Union, he was married, and his wife's name was Khadij Ahmed Mawlud. He studied in the Soviet Union and was admitted to the Oil Institute, but he could not finish it as he had one year left. While in the Soviet Union, he married Maryam Abbas Qaraman, and they had a son named Hassan Tajadin, who was born in 1959. After returning from the Soviet Union in 1959, he was employed as an official at the sugar factory in Mosul. In the years (1971-1972), he became an official at the sugar factory in Mosul for the second time. In 1975, after the collapse of the Aylul Revolution he remained in his homeland and was later employed in the Erbil Road and Bridge Directorate. He passed away in 2010 in Erbil and was buried in the Birkot cemetery.

Struggle Record

Before joining the first Barzan revolution, Tajadin Agha Tajdin was a soldier in the government of Iraq and deserted from the military. In 1943, he joined the Second Barzan Revolution and participated in the battles. On August 19, 1945, by order of the Iraqi military tribunal, all his movable and immovable property was seized. After the collapse of the Second Barzan Revolution on October 11, 1945, he headed to Eastern Kurdistan. On March 31, 1946, he served as a Peshmerga in the Barzani 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. In 1947, he participated in the Battle of Sufian, and after the collapse of the Republic of Kurdistan, on March 19, 1947, he participated in the battles of Naqada and Oshnavieh. He was among the Peshmerga who returned to the Shirwan and Mazuri region on April 19, 1947, through the Khwakurk road and the Barazgir plain via the territory of Northern Kurdistan.

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 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, towards 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. They were guarded by a group of soldiers and were treated as 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 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 the officers of the Republic of Azerbaijan, they were given eight hours of military training daily. At the same time, they were taught Kurdish language lessons daily for four hours by some of their companions who were literate.

After the bad treatment of Jafar Bagirov towards the companions, it was decided to move the military camp on August 29, 1948, from the Republic of Azerbaijan to the Charchuk complex near Tashkent, the capital of the Republic of Uzbekistan, and there 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 (Kolkhozes) (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 Barzanito Stalin, finally a letter reached Stalin in which Barzani talked about the hardships of his companions, and he immediately decided to form a committee to investigate the situation of Barzani's companions, and finally the committee's decision was that they should all be gathered in the city of Vrevsky, so the aforementioned went to the city of Vrevsky 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 working with article (11) based on the amended Law No. 19 of 1959, he and his companions were covered by the general amnesty.

In 1958, the Republic of Iraq was established under the presidency of Abdul Karim Qasim. The aforementioned returned to Kurdistan on April 16, 1959, 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 participated in the Battle of the Amar Agha Gorge.

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