Ali Beg Hussain Beg Jaff

He is Ali the son of Hussain Beg the son of Hasan Beg the son of Mohammed Pasha; he was born in Faqi Jenna village that was part of Warmawa district (presently Arbat) on 7^th May1926, at exactly 17.30 pm.

He attended the Faisalia elementary school in Sulaimania in 1934, which was a basic change in his life, as he began to encounter city life in contrast to his village background. After the revolution of Rasheed A’ali Al Gailani in 1941 he left his school for two years and returned to his old village where he learnt the arts of horse riding and shooting.    

In 1943 he went back to Sulaimania to continue his studies. At that period the communist party of Iraq was the only active political organization in Sulaimania, proclaiming to defend democracy and the rights of the Kurdish people, which pushed many Kurdish youths to join in, and the party itself was keen to attract members of prominent families and tribes into its organization.

Ali Beg Jaff was one of those who did join the communist party to begin his political activism in that party, and became Secretary General of the Students Union in Sulaimania and a prominent member of the party. An order by the authorities for his arrest was issued, that forced him to hide and took sanctuary among the Jaff tribe in the Shahrezoor area in Mohammed Beg Jaff’s house together with other communist fugitives.  

He was arrested upon his return to Sulaimania and was dispatched to Kirkuk to stand trial and served his sentence. Later he went to Baghdad and continued his studies at the Institute of Science. He was then contacted by the communist party and rejoined the movement and political activities in Baghdad.  

 He was once again arrested in 1948 during a mass demonstration which was organized by the communist party in Baghdad, was beaten and injured, and then was imprisoned for three years with hard labour. Upon appealing the verdict, the sentence was increased by six months, which he served in Baghdad and Kut prisons.  

The activism and events enriched his life at such youthful time and he continued to work with the communist party until 1958 when he diverted his energies to farming and managing his estates.  

Ali Beg joined the September revolt of great patriot Mullah Mustafa Barzani in 11 September 1961 to 1975. After the Algerian accord between the Iraqi government and Mohammed Reza Pehlawi, the Shah of Iran, the revolution collapsed and the Kurdish parties became dispersed.  

 A year later the parties started reorganizing themselves by formulating secret political and military cells in all parts of Iraqi Kurdistan, and a new parties emerged such as the Kurdistan National Union under the leadership of the nationalist patriot Jalal Talabani, and the Kurdistan Socialist Party, the Pasok Party and others.  

Ali Beg joined the Pasok Party to continue his patriotic mission in this party to become one of its leaders. After the elections in the Kurdistan region in 1992 the Pasok party amalgamated with Kurdish people’s party to be known as the Tajamo’a (amalgamation). He became a member of the central committee of the new party in the first conference in Erbil.  

 Upon the amalgamation of this party with Democratic Party of Kurdistan, he became a General Inspector in the Government of the Province of Kurdistan and submitted many reports for reforms of the party and community.