Azo Shekhomer was born in the village of Shanadar, affiliated with the Gortu sub-district in the Mergasor district of Erbil Governorate, and passed away in 1988.
Struggle RecordAzo Shekhomer on May 23, 1947, accompanied General Mustafa Barzani towards the Soviet Union and participated in the Battle of Qatur and the Battle of the Maku Bridge, and after much hardship and fatigue, on June 18, 1947, he crossed the Aras River, which is located on the border between Iran and the Soviet Union, towards the Soviet Union.
After their arrival in the Soviet Union, on June 19, 1947, along with all his companions, they were placed in the city of Nakhchivan in the Republic of Azerbaijan for forty days in an open-air complex surrounded by barbed wire, and were guarded by a group of soldiers, and were treated as prisoners of war in terms of food, clothing, and movement. Later, by the decision of the Soviet government, they were distributed among the regions of Aghdam, Lachin, Ayulakh, and Kalbajar in the Republic of Azerbaijan. On December 10, 1947, they were moved to a camp on the Caspian Sea in Baku, the capital of the Republic of Azerbaijan, and on the 23rd of the same month, they were given military uniforms and, under the supervision of the officers of the Republic of Azerbaijan, were given eight hours of military training daily. At the same time, for four hours a day, they were taught lessons in learning the Kurdish language by some of their companions who were literate.
After Jafar Bagirov's bad treatment of the companions, it was decided to move the military camp on August 29, 1948, from the Republic of Azerbaijan to the Charchuk complex near Tashkent, the capital of the Republic of Uzbekistan, and there they continued their military training.
In March 1949, along with his companions, they were distributed in groups and teams by train among the collective villages of the Soviet Union and worked on the collective farms (Kolkhoz) (those lands that people took back from the government and later gave the government's share back).
After much effort and sending several letters by General Barzani to Stalin, finally a letter reached Stalin in which Barzani described the hardships of his companions, and he immediately decided to form a committee to investigate the situation of Barzani's companions, and finally the committee's decision was that they should all be gathered in the city of Vrevitsk, so the aforementioned went to the city of Vrevitsk in the Soviet Union in November 1951.
In 1958, the Republic government was established in Iraq under the leadership of Abd al-Karim Qasim, so the aforementioned returned to Kurdistan on April 16, 1959, along with his companions on the ship Grozia via the port of Basra in the south of the Republic of Iraq.
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