Nabard Mohamed Saeed Beg Jaff
Born in Kalar village, his
mother Zeeba daughter of Kareem Beg leader of Jaff tribe, his father
Mohamed Saeed Beg Jaff the well-known progressive writer in the Garmian
district in south Kurdistan, who had honorable stands in the struggle of
the 40s and 50s.
Nabard Jaff grew up in such a progressive ideological
environment that enriched his consciousness for freedom and democracy for
the Kurdish people.
He completed his elementary and secondary schooling
in Kalar village and the city of Khanaqeen; then moved to Baghdad to
finish his schooling there. Upon getting his secondary school certificate
in the late 60s, he went to the military college, and graduated an
officer.
At that
stage he established contacts with the Kurdish movement to be one of its
members, a step that he truly embraced, and later he joined the Kurdish
forces and began his nationalist fight for the liberation of Kurdistan. He
was later forced to join his family who were living in Tehran, and there
he decided to continue his studies in the College of Literature at Tehran
University.
Due to
his passion to freedom and democracy, he founded friendship in the
university with the progressive students and participated in their fight
for democracy and freedom in Iran. Being brave and generous and his house
was a refuge for the needy students and those who came from outside other
Iranian provinces.
An
example of his bravery was his stand on the day of Khomeni’s arrival of
power in Iran, and despite the disturbances and fighting that were taking
place in the street of Tehran, he took a decision, together with Dr.
Sarwat, to help his cousin Salar Jaff, who was under arrest in the
National Shura Council. But alas they were not able to help Salar, and
after a vicious battle, the Khomeni gang captured Salar Jaff, and he was
martyred later.
After those events, his family was forced to leave
Tehran and go to Iran Kurdistan, on the Iraqi-Iranian borders. The Iraqi
Government then contacted his family, who wanted to send a representative
for negotiations, and chose Nabard Jaff, although he was an ex officer in
Iraqi army, and facing danger because of that; but he insisted to be the
representative.
With Masod Barzani
The
family then returned to Iraq and cooperated with his cousin Sardar Jaff,
who was battling the Iranian government for freedom and democracy, in the
Kurdish national movement. When Mr. Sardar Jaff was forced to abandon his
armed struggle, due to regional policies, Nabard Jaff settled in Baghdad
city.
This quiet living did not make him forget the central
case of his life, that of the Kurdish cause, which was the first and last
objective. During the Iraqi-Iranian war he cooperated with the Iraqi
government, because he believed the Khomeni government was the biggest
danger to Kurdish nationalism.
Meanwhile, the Iraqi government
began the campaign of destruction of Kurdish towns and villages, and the
resettlement of the people in compounds. Such actions were neither
acceptable to, nor compatible with the beliefs of Nabard Jaff, and decided to
join the Kurdish forces, and indeed he did together other armed
individuals from the Jaff tribe, a move that was looked at with dismay,
giving the circumstances of the Iraqi-Iranian war, which was at its peak,
and also considering the weaknesses which the Kurdish movement was passing
thru at that time.
But Nabard Jaff, as we know him, does not compromise
his national principles and his decision was the correct one.
Again, because the war in the
border, the weakness of the Kurdish movement at that time, and their
inability to start the fight in the area, he was forced to go to Iran,
where he became uncomfortable, because it was not his real objective to
remain in Iran. Therefore he contacted Mr. Masood Barzani, the leader of
the Kurdish movement, to inform him that he was leaving Iran, and to
travel to a European country, where he became a refugee in Norway in
1989.
He remained there until the
uprising in Iraq Kurdistan. Upon his return, he was appointed director of
the Military College in Erbil.
Nabard Jaff did not complete his mission that he
struggled, and spent most of his life for. But unfortunately he died in
1993 before he was 46 years of age.
Nabard Jaff loved his country intensely, and his
country reciprocated his love and as if invited to return to die and be
buried in its soil.
Beside his patriotic struggle, Nabard was a gifted poet, a
good writer who published many articles in Kurdish, Iranian, and Arabic
newspapers and periodicals in Europe, together with poetry collections, of
which Baghdad, and Matar AlMaot (Rain of Death) were published .
He marrid Noriah Shaikh Al-Islami and have two son Showan & Amir and one daughter , Sham .
Sham |
Showan Amir |
Noriah |
