Biography
Bahjat Abdulhalq Abdulqadr was born in 1917 in Akre district in the city of Duhok. He studied in the Soviet Union. In 1953, he participated in mechanical course. In 1954, he was transferred to the city of Tashkand to participate in a carpentry course and electrical appliances. In 1954, he was employed in carpentry factory number 682 of part 9, and in the same year, he became a level 3 carpenter. In 1955, he became a level 4 carpenter. In 1956, he was transferred to Tahsiba school and petroleum courses in Bashkiria. In 1957, he was transferred to carpentry factory of 55 in Tashkand. On 5th March 1958, he received his agricultural and industrial engineering certificate in Vrivisky of Uzbekistan. In 1979, he was an employee of Tractor and Export company as a translator. He knew both Kurdish and Russian. In 1980, he was retired and passed away that same year.
After the return of general Mustafa Barzani from eastern Kurdistan and deciding to go to the Soviet Union, Bahjat helps him to travel to the Soviet Union and fights in the battles of “Gali Qtur” and the Mako bridge. After a lot of hardships, on the 18th of June in 1947, Bahjat was able to travel to the Soviet Union after passing through the Aras River which was between the borders of Iran and the Soviet Union.
After their arrival to the Soviet Union on the 19th of June in 1947 in the city of “Nakhchawan” in the Republic of Azerbaijan, for forty days, all of the comrades were placed in a community that was surrounded by barbed wire. They were being monitored by the soldiers and were treated like hostages of war when it came to food and clothes. Afterwards, the Soviet government decided that the comrades should be divided into the places of “Aghdam”, “Lachin”, “Ayulax” and “Kalbajar” in the Republic of Azerbaijan. On the 10th of December in 1947, they were transported to a military camp on the lake of “Khazar” in the capital of the Republic of Mahabad “Bakor”. On the 23rd of the same month, they were given military clothes and were trained by the officers of the republic 8 hours a day. On top of that, some of the comrades that were literate in Kurdish would teach them the language for 4 hours a day.
After the ill-treatment of “Jaafar Baqrov” with the comrades, on the 29th of August in 1949, Barzani decides to transport his military camp from the republic of Mahabad to a “Chrchuk” community near the city of “Tashkand” which was the capital of Uzbekistan; there they continued their military practices.
In March 1949, the comrades were divided into the villages of the Soviet Union and farms (where civilians would rent them from the governments and pay them back later). The comrades were working in these places.
Following multiple letters to Stalin by General Barzani, a letter finally reaches Stalin where it talks about the hardships the comrades are going through. Stalin immediately creates a party to investigate the comrades of Barzani; the party comes to the decision that everyone should gather in the city of “Vrivsky”. Bahjat travels to the city in November of 1951. There, he was transferred to salkhoz number 9 of 2 in Tashkand. (Salkhoz is the name for agricultural lands that the Soviet Union owned).
After the July 14, 1958, revolution in Iraq and the return of General Mustafa Barzani, on February 25, 1959, according to both Articles 3 and 7, paragraph (a) of Article 10 and according to Article (11), and based on the amended law No. 19, General Mustafa Barzani and his comrades were granted a general amnesty.
Bahjat along with his comrades travelled back to Kurdistan with the ship “Grozya” through the harbor of “Basra” on the 16th of April in 1959.
Source:
- حه‌مید گه‌ردی، پوخته‌ی مێژوونامه، چاپی یه‌كه‌م، (هه‌ولێر - ده‌زگای چاپ و بڵاوكردنه‌وه‌ی ئاراس - چاپخانه‌ی وه‌زاره‌تی په‌روه‌رده - ٢٠٠٤).
- ئاراس حسۆ میرخان ٦٢ رۆژ له‌گه‌ڵ بارزانی دا چوونی بارزانییه‌كان بۆ یه‌كێتی سۆڤێت له یادداشتی فه‌رمانده‌ی شه‌هید حه‌سۆ میرخان ژاژۆكی، چاپی یه‌كه‌م (هه‌ولێر - چاپخانه‌ی رۆشنبیری - ١٩٩٧).
- مسعود بارزانی، بارزانی و بزوتنه‌وه‌ی رزگاریخوازی كورد ١٩٣١-١٩٥٨، (دهۆك - چاپخانه‌ی خه‌بات - ١٩٩٨).
- ئەرشیفی دەستەی ئینسکلۆپیدیا، وینه و به‌ڵگه‌نامه‌كانی به‌هجه‌ت عه‌بدولخالق ئاكره‌یی.
- نص قرار لجنة العفو العام برد الاعتبار الى شهداء ثورة بارزان، مجلة رزگاری، العدد ٣،٢، المطبعة الرابطة، بغداد، ١ نيسان ١٩٥٩.
