Biography

Badin Qadir Badin was born in 1918 in the village of Dezo, affiliated with the Shirwan Mazin sub-district in the Mergasor district of Erbil province. Before going to the Soviet Union, he married Shirin Jundi Suleiman and in 1945 they had a daughter, whom they named Fahima. He also married Aisha Bilal in the Soviet Union and they had a daughter named Jawahir who was born in 1951. His second wife was from the Tatar nation of the Crimean Peninsula (Republic of Ukraine). When Badin returned from the Soviet Union to Kurdistan, his wife and child, who was eight years old at the time, did not return to Kurdistan and remained in Uzbekistan.

Struggle Record

Badin Qadir joined the ranks of the Second Barzan Revolution in 1945 when he was a thirteen-year-old youth. Due to his young age, he served the Peshmerga by delivering food to the headquarters and battlefields.

On October 11, 1945, after the collapse of the Second Barzan Revolution, along with Mustafa Barzani and his companions, he crossed into Eastern Kurdistan. After the establishment of the Republic of Kurdistan in Mahabad, on March 31, 1946, he defended the Republic within the framework of the Barzan force.

 After the fall of the Republic of Kurdistan in Mahabad and Barzani's return from Eastern Kurdistan to Southern Kurdistan, he participated in the Battle of Naghadeh and the Battle of Oshnavieh in Eastern Kurdistan. He was also among the Peshmerga who returned to the Shirwan and Muzuri region through Northern Kurdistan via the Khwakurk and Barazgar plain on April 19, 1947.

After their return, General Mustafa Barzani held a meeting with his companions on May 6, 1947, in the village of Argosh and gave them the choice to stay or go to the Soviet Union. There, all his companions decided to continue and go to the Soviet Union. On May 23, 1947, he accompanied General Mustafa Barzani towards the Soviet Union and participated in the Battle of Gali Qotur and the Battle of the Maku Bridge. 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, into the Soviet Union.

After arriving in the Soviet Union, on June 19, 1947, along with all his companions, he was placed in an open-air compound surrounded by barbed wire in the city of Nakhchivan in the Republic of Azerbaijan for forty days. They 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 military camp on the Caspian Sea in Baku, Republic of Azerbaijan, and on the 23rd of the same month, they were given military uniforms and, under the supervision of officers of the Republic of Azerbaijan, they were given eight hours of military training daily. At the same time, for four hours a day, they were taught lessons in the Kurdish language by some of their companions who were literate.

After Jafar Baghirov's poor treatment of the companions, it was decided to move the military camp on August 29, 1948, from the Republic of Azerbaijan to the Charchuk community near Tashkent, the capital of the Republic of Uzbekistan, where they continued their military training.

In March 1949, along with his companions, they were distributed in groups and squads by train among the collective villages of the Soviet Union and worked in the collective farms (the lands that people rented from the government and later gave the government's share back).

After much effort and sending several letters by General Barzani to Stalin, a letter finally reached Stalin in which Barzani described the hardships of his companions. He immediately ordered the formation of a committee to investigate the situation of Barzani's companions, and the committee's decision was that they should all be gathered in the city of Vrevitsky. Therefore, he went to the city of Vrevitsky in the Soviet Union in November 1951.

After the July 14, 1958 revolution in Iraq and the return of General Mustafa Barzani on February 25, 1959, and in accordance with both the third and seventh articles and paragraph (A) of the tenth article, and by applying Article (11) based on the amended Law No. 19 of 1959, he and his companions were granted a general amnesty.

After the Republic of Iraq was established in 1958 under the presidency of Abd al-Karim Qasim, he returned to Kurdistan on April 16, 1959, with his companions on the ship Gruzia, through the port of Basra in the south of the Republic of Iraq. He participated in the Aylul Revolution and was martyred in 1963 in the village of Spindara in Khoshnawati at the foot of Mount Hawre and was buried there.

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