Biography

Ziyab Hasni was born in 1925 in the village of Hasni, affiliated with the Barzan district in the Mergasor district of Erbil province. Before going to the Soviet Union, he was married, and his wife's name was Sarwar Chicho Ismail. They had two sons and two daughters named Amina Ziyab, Baybun Ziyab, Fakhr Ziyab, and Musa Ziyab, who passed away in Mahabad due to typhoid fever. Ziyab Hasni studied in the Soviet Union and received a diploma from the institute in the agriculture department. In 1959, he was appointed as an employee in the Erbil Road Administration and was later transferred to the Barzan region. He was proficient in both Kurdish and Russian languages. He passed away in 1975 in the village of Hasni and was buried there.

 On July 31, 1983, during the Anfal operation against the Barzanis, three of his sons, named Muhammad Ziyab (1963-1983), Uzair Ziyab (1966-1983), and Fakhr Ziyab (1970-1983), were disappeared by the Iraqi government in the Qushtapa complex (Erbil).

Struggle Record

Ziyab Hasni joined the ranks of the Second Barzan Revolution in 1943 and participated in the battles. On August 19, 1945, by order of the Iraqi military court, all his movable and immovable property was seized. On October 11, 1945, after the defeat of the Second Barzan Revolution, he headed to Eastern Kurdistan with his family. On March 31, 1946, he served as 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 Mizuri region through the territory of Northern Kurdistan on April 19, 1947, via the Khwakurk and Barazgar plain route.

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 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, he and all his companions were placed in an open-air complex surrounded by barbed wire in the city of Nakhchivan in the Republic of Azerbaijan for forty days. They were 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, Ayulakh, 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 were trained for eight hours of military exercises daily under the supervision of the officers of the Republic of Azerbaijan. At the same time, they were taught the Kurdish language daily for four hours by some of their companions who were literate.

After Jafar Bagirov's poor treatment of his 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, where they continued their military training.

In March 1949, he and his companions were distributed in groups and squads by train to the collective villages of the Soviet Union and worked on collective farms (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 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 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 Abdul Karim Qasim. On April 16, 1959, he and his companions returned to Kurdistan via the port of Basra in the south of the Republic of Iraq on the ship Grozia. 

 In the year 1964, he participated in the Aylul Revolution and was a Sergeant. He participated in the battles of Pirs and Mili Mala and supervised the battle of Risha. He continued his Peshmerga struggle until the defeat of the revolution.

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