the biography
Qadir Badin was born in 1918 in the village of Dezo, which belongs to the Shirwan Mazin district in the Mergasur district of Erbil Governorate. He married Shirin Jundi Suleiman before going to the Soviet Union, and in 1945 they had a daughter whom they named (Fahima). He also married a second time in the Soviet Union to Aisha Bilal, and in 1951 they had a daughter whom they named (Jawahir). His second wife was of the Tatar ethnicity in the Crimean Peninsula (the Ukrainian Republic). He left the Soviet Union and returned to Kurdistan, but his wife and daughter, who was 8 years old at the time, did not return to Kurdistan and remained in Uzbekistan.
pages of struggle
Badin Qadir joined the ranks of the second Barzan revolution in 1945, when he was no more than thirteen years old. Because of his young age, he took on the service of the Peshmerga by delivering food to the headquarters and battlefields.
On November 11, 1945, following the setback of the second Barzan uprising, he crossed into eastern Kurdistan with Mustafa Barzani and his comrades. After the establishment of the Democratic Republic of Kurdistan in Mahabad on March 31, 1946, he defended the republic as part of Barzan's forces.
After the collapse of the Republic of Kurdistan in Mahabad and Barzani’s return from eastern Kurdistan to southern Kurdistan, he participated in the battles of Naghdeh and Shino in eastern Kurdistan, and he was among his Peshmerga comrades, as he returned on 19/4/1947 via (Khakurk and the Barazgara Plain) through the lands of northern Kurdistan to the Shirwan and Mazuri regions.
Upon their return, General Mustafa Barzani held a meeting with his comrades in the village of Arkush on May 15, 1947, and gave them the choice of staying or going to the Soviet Union. There, all his comrades decided to continue and head to the Soviet Union. On May 23, 1947, they accompanied General Mustafa Barzani to the Soviet Union, participating in the battles of Qatur and the Maku Bridge. After great hardship and exhaustion, they crossed the Aras River on June 18, 1947, which lies on the border between Iran and the Soviet Union.
Upon their arrival in the Soviet Union on June 19, 1947, he and all his comrades were detained in the city of Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan, for forty days in an open compound surrounded by barbed wire and guarded by soldiers. They were treated as prisoners of war in terms of food, clothing, and transportation. By order of the Soviet government, they were later distributed to the Aghdam, Lachin, Ayulakh, and Kalbajar regions of Azerbaijan. On December 10, 1947, they were transferred to a camp on the Caspian Sea in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan. On December 23, they received military uniforms and underwent eight hours of daily military training under the supervision of Azerbaijani officers. Simultaneously, they received four hours of daily Kurdish language instruction from some of their more educated comrades.
After Jafar Bakirov's mistreatment of his comrades, Barzani decided to move his military assembly from Azerbaijan on August 29, 1948, to the Girjuk complex near the Uzbek capital, Tashkent, where they continued their military training.
In March 1949, he and his comrades were distributed in groups by train to cooperative villages in the Soviet Union and worked on kolkhoz farms (land that people rented from the government and then paid a share of to the government).
After great efforts and sending several letters from General Barzani to Stalin, Stalin finally received a letter in which Barzani spoke about the suffering of his comrades, and he immediately decided to form a committee to investigate the situation of Barzani’s comrades. The committee’s final decision was that they should be gathered in the city of Frivsky, so in November 1951 he went to the Soviet city of Frivsky.
After the July 14, 1958 revolution in Iraq and the return of General Mustafa Barzani, on February 25, 1959, he and his companions were included in the general amnesty according to Articles (3) and (7) and Paragraph (a) of Article (10) and the application of Article (11) pursuant to Law No. (19) amended for the year 1959.
After Jafar Bagirov mistreated his comrades, Barzani decided to move his military compound from Azerbaijan on August 29, 1948 to the Gurjuk compound near the Uzbek capital, Tashkent, where they continued their military training.
After their dismissal order was issued on April 16, 1959, he returned to Kurdistan with his companions aboard the ship Crozeya via the port of Basra in southern Iraq. He participated in September Revolution In 1963, he was martyred in the village of Spindarah in the Khoshnawti region at the foot of Mount Hewari, and was buried there.
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- Haider Farouk Al-Samarrai, Diaa Jaafar and his political and economic role in Iraq, (London - Dar Al-Hikma - 2016).
- Masoud Barzani, Barzani and the Ezgari Khwazi Kurd 1931 - 1958, (Dehek - Chapkhana - 1998).
- Archive of the Encyclopedia Authority of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.
- Text of the decision of the General Amnesty Committee to restore the honor of the martyrs of the Barzan Revolution, Rizgari Magazine, Issue 3, 2, Al-Rabita Press, Baghdad, April 1, 1959.
