MULLA MUSTAFA BARZANI
14.03.1903 - 01-03-1979

 

• Born in the village of Barzan on 14 th March 1903.
• Detained with his mother in Mosul Prison in 1906, After uprising against the Ottoman rule.
• Took part in Sheikh Mahmoud's uprising in 1919 commanding a 300 man force
• Visited Sheikh Said Piran ( in northern Kurdistan ) as a representative of his elder brother, Sheikh Ahmad ( Sheikh Said led the Kurdish uprising in 1925 ).
• Commanded Barzan forces resisting the Iraqi Government campaign, supported by British forces against the Kurds in 1932. Then he and a number of Pesh-margas went to Turkey. Sheikh Ahmad was arrested and handed over to the Iraqi authorities.   During the same year, he returned to Mosul and was arrested.
• He was banished to various towns between 1932 and 1943.
• Managed to escape, with the help of Hiwa Party and other Kurds, and  returned to Barzan.
• Led the Barzan uprising against Iraqi regime, which were directly helped  by the British Royal Air Forces in 1945. In the same year, he and his
  forces went to Mahabad and participated in the consolidation of  the Mahabad Republic. He was appointed Commander of the Republic's
  Army and given the rank of General by the former Soviet Union.
• In 1946 he and other Kurds founded the KDP and was elected its President.
• He was President of the Party from that time until his death 1979.
• Fought the forces of defunct Shah, Shah has the help of Britain and the USA, and after the collapse of Mahabad Republiche, Barzani and 500 of the Pesh-mergas fought the armies of Iran, Iraq and Turkey and Reached the former Soviet Union,
  where they Became refugees until 1958.
• He and his Pesh-merga returned to Iraq on 6th October 1958, i.e. After the 14th July revolution. He welcomed by Kurdish and Iraqi popular masses, as well as officially, as a national hero.
• Led the September Revolution from 11th September 1961 until the collapse in March 1975.
• During the 8th February 1963 Black Coup by the Bath Party, Barzani welcomed all Iraqi, Kurdish , Arab and other minorities patriots to
  the liberated Areas.
• The Kurdish national movement, under Barzani's Leadership, signed the 11th March 1970 agreement with Iraqi government, stipulating
   autonomy for Kurdish within Iraq, which the government Subsequently reneged.
• After the collapse of September Revolution March 1975, Barzani lived in Iran for a time under many restrictions. Because of failing health
  and his distrust of the Shah, he went to USA to receive treatment for his lung cancer and remained there until his death.
• After the collapse of September Revolution March 1975, Barzani lived in Iran for a time under many restrictions. Because of failing health
  and his distrust of the Shah, he went to USA to receive treatment for his lung cancer and remained there until his death.
• He had decided to return to Kurdistan via Iran 1979.
• Died in the late hours of Thursday, the 1st of March 1979 at George Town Hospital, Washington DC, and subsequently
  buried in Shuno( Ashnoviya in Kurdistan-Iran). A massive crowd of people took part in his funeral.
• 1994, over million people took part in mass memorial  throughout free Kurdistan to commemorate his 15th
   anniversary and with his body moved from Ashnoviya  to Barzan, where he was born.