Azad Abdulqadir Saeed, Known as Azad Qaradaghi, a politician, in the Year 1969 was a student graduate of the second session of the Kurdistan Democratic Party cadre training school in the village of Nawprdan affiliated with Erbil Governorate, in the Year 1979 by the representatives of 9th Congress was elected as a reserve member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, in the Year 1989 by the representatives of Tenth Congress was elected as a member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, in the Year 1992 he was a member of the Kurdistan National Assembly in its first term, in the Year 1993 by the representatives of Eleventh Congress was elected as a reserve member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party - Unified in the city of Erbil.

Biography

Azad Abdulqadir Saeed was born in the Year 1947 in the Qaradagh area affiliated with Sulaymaniyah Governorate, he is a graduate of the agricultural high school, in the Year 1975 after the collapse of the September Revolution he became a refugee in the Kingdom of Iran and lived there as a refugee and earned a living for himself and his family by working in factories, in the Year 1977 his house was a place of refuge for those who had the message of the interim leadership of the Kurdistan Democratic Party for Idris Barzani (1944-1987) brought, he passed away in the Year 2000. He was proficient in the Kurdish, Arabic, Persian, and Swedish languages.

Struggle Record

Azad Qaradaghi joined the ranks of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the Year 1960, in the Year 1964 he was a member of the Qaradaghi organization committee affiliated with the Sulaymaniyah regional committee affiliated with the Fourth Branch committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, in the month of April 1969 he was accepted with thirty-one students in the second session of the Kurdistan Democratic Party cadre training school in the village of Nawprdan affiliated with Erbil Governorate and graduated successfully in the month of August 1969, in the Year 1971 he was the head of the Dukan regional committee affiliated with the Fourth Branch committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, in the years (1972-1974) he was elected as the head of the Ranya regional committee affiliated with the Fourth Branch committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, in the Year 1974 he was elected as an administrator of the Seventh Branch committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party whose headquarters was in the village of Nawprdan affiliated with Erbil Governorate.

In the Year 1974 on the Plingan front affiliated with Sulaymaniyah Governorate he fought against the ground forces of the Iraq army and was wounded, in the Year 1979 he was a member of the reorganization committee of the interim leadership of the Kurdistan Democratic Party among the refugees of Southern Kurdistan in the Islamic Republic of Iran, in the Year 1979 he was a member of the preparatory committee for the 9th Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the village of Rajan in Eastern Kurdistan, in the Year 1979 by the representatives of 9th Congress was elected as a reserve member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, in the Year 1979 he was made an administrator of the Fourth Branch committee, in the summer of the Year 1982 he participated in the liberation of the (Halabja - Said Sadiq) road affiliated with Halabja Governorate, in the Year 1986 he was made the head of the Third Branch committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, in the Year 1987 his rank was promoted to member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, in the Year 1989 by the representatives of Tenth Congress was elected as a member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.

On 28 February 1991 before the uprising of Southern Kurdistan as the head of the Third Branch committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party he reached Mount Bamo with a force of Peshmerga and established a Peshmerga base there, in the Year 1991 and during the uprising of Southern Kurdistan he was a member of the leadership of the (Sulaymaniyah - Kirkuk) axis on behalf of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the Kurdistan Front and participated in the Chamchamal meeting of the Kurdistan Front for the liberation of the city of Kirkuk on behalf of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, the same year as a leader and commander he participated in the liberation of the city of Kirkuk, on 12 April 1991 after the exodus in the battle of Mount Azmar on the border of Sulaymaniyah Governorate he participated against the campaign of the Iraq ground army and was wounded, in the middle of the Year 1992 he was a candidate on the Kurdistan Democratic Party list for the Kurdistan National Assembly, in the Year 1992 he was elected by voters as a member of the Kurdistan National Assembly on the yellow list of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, at the end of the Year 1992 he was appointed as the head of the branch committee in the twenty-sixth staff of the Second Branch committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, at the end of the Year 1992 he was appointed as the head of the branch committee in the twenty-seventh staff of the Second Branch.

In the Year 1993 by the representatives of Eleventh Congress was elected as a reserve member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party - Unified in the city of Erbil, in the month of August 1993 he was appointed by the Political Bureau of the Kurdistan Democratic Party - Unified as the first head of the Eleventh Branch committee of Ranya and remained in office until the month of May 1994, from 23 December 1994 to 28 March 1995 he was a sit-in protester in the hall of the Kurdistan National Assembly with 58 members of the Kurdistan National Assembly from all lists to condemn the civil war, on 19 December 1996 and in the first term he was a member of the Peshmerga Affairs Committee of the Kurdistan National Assembly, on 9 September 1998 in the same first term he was a member of the Human Rights and Complaints Committee and a member of the Peshmerga Affairs Committee in the Kurdistan National Assembly, in the Year 1999 he was a member of the Twelfth Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party was, the same year he was the head of the General Social Bureau of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, on the night of 11 January 2000 he passed away from a fatal illness at the Karolinska Hospital in Stockholm, the capital of the Kingdom of Sweden, on Thursday 10 February 2000 his body was buried in a large ceremony at the Pirmam cemetery affiliated with Erbil Governorate.

Source:

1. Archive of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Encyclopedia Board.