the biography

child Bahjat Abdul-Khaliq Abdul-Qadir Born in Akre district of Duhok Governorate in 1917, he studied in the Soviet Union. In 1953, he participated in a mechanics course. In 1954, he was transferred to Tashkent to participate in a carpentry and electrical equipment course. Also in 1954, he was appointed to Section 9 of Carpentry Workshop No. 682. That same year, he became Carpenter No. 3, and in 1955, Carpenter No. 5. He earned a degree in Industrial and Agricultural Engineering from Frivsky, Uzbekistan. In 1979, he was appointed as a translator at the Tractors and Export Corporation. He was fluent in both Kurdish and Russian. He retired in 1980 and passed away that same year.

pages of struggle

After General Mustafa Barzani returned from eastern Kurdistan and decided to go to the Soviet Union, he accompanied Barzani on the march and participated in the battles of Qatur and Maku Bridge. After great hardship and exhaustion, he 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, and from there he was transferred to Salkhoz No. 9, Section 2 in the Tashkent Brigade.

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.

He returned with his companions on April 16, 1959 to Kurdistan aboard the ship Crozea via the port of Basra in southern Iraq.

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- Hamid Ghaherdi, the name of God, the name of God, (Holler - Dehzghai Chap and the name of Aras) - Chapkhana and Hazara of Iran - 2004).

- Aras Hassiah Mirkhan 62 years old Hessiah Mirkhan Zajachiki, Chapi Yahkim (Holler - Chapkhana Rechshanperi - 1997).

- Masoud Barzani, Barzani and the Rezgarekhwazi Kurd 1931-1958, (Dehek - Chapkhaneh Khabat - 1998).

- Archive of the Encyclopedia Authority of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.

- Text of the General Amnesty Committee’s decision to restore honor to the martyrs of the Barzan Revolution, Rizgari Magazine, No. 3.2, Association Press, Baghdad, April 1, 1959.