Born Badro Lashkari Hussein in the year 1930 in the village of Bistry, affiliated with the Karto sub-district in the Mergasor district of Erbil Governorate. He married (Kurdistan Muhammad Hali) and they had four sons and one daughter: (Sarkawt, Matin, Halkawt, Rikkawt, Aisha). He studied in the Soviet Union and obtained a bachelor's degree in the Department of Agriculture. He took refuge in Iran in 1975 and returned to Kurdistan in 1995.
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In 1943, he joined the ranks of the Second Revolution of Barzan. On November 6, 1943, he participated in the seizure of the Karto police station, and on September 5, 1945, he participated in the seizure of the Maydan Murik police station. On August 19, 1945, all his movable and immovable property was confiscated by order of the Iraqi Military Court due to his participation in the Aylul Revolution Second.
After October 11, 1945, and following the setback of the Aylul Revolution Second, he headed to East Kurdistan. On March 31, 1946, he served as a Peshmerga with his brothers Ahmad Lashkari and Sharif Lashkari in the Barzan force affiliated with the Democratic Republic of Kurdistan, and they were among the force of Salih Mustafa at the Saqqez front in the Democratic Republic of Kurdistan.
On April 29, 1946, he participated in the Battle of Qarawa in the Saqqez region, and on May 3, 1946, he participated in the Battle of Malqarni. After the collapse of the Democratic Republic of Kurdistan, he participated on March 3, 1947, in the Battle of Nalus, and in the battles of Naghadeh and Oshnavieh in East Kurdistan on March 19, 1947.
After the collapse of the Democratic Republic of Kurdistan and the return of Barzani from East Kurdistan to South Kurdistan, he participated in the battles of Naghadeh and Oshnavieh in East Kurdistan, and was among the Peshmerga members who returned on 19/4/1947 to the Shirwan and Mazuri regions via (Khwakurk and the Barazgara plain) through the lands of North Kurdistan.
After their return, General Mustafa Barzani held a meeting with his comrades in the village of Arkush on 15/5/1947 and gave them the choice to stay or go to the Soviet Union. There, all his comrades decided to continue and head to the Soviet Union. On May 23, 1947, he accompanied General Mustafa Barzani to the Soviet Union, and participated in the battles of Wadi Qotur and the Maku Bridge. After great hardship and severe exhaustion, he crossed the Aras River on June 18, 1947, into the Soviet Union, which is located on the border between Iran and the Soviet Union.
On June 19, 1947, he and all his comrades were detained in the city of Nakhchivan in the Republic of Azerbaijan for forty days in an open compound surrounded by barbed wire guarded by soldiers. They were treated as prisoners of war in terms of food, clothing, and transportation. By a decision of the Soviet government, they were later distributed to the regions of Aghdam, Lachin, Yevlakh, and Kalbajar in the Republic of Azerbaijan. On December 10, 1947, they were transferred to a camp on the Caspian Sea in the capital of the Azerbaijani Republic, Baku. On December 23, 1947, they received military uniforms, and they were receiving military training for eight hours daily under the supervision of officers from the Republic of Azerbaijan. At the same time, they were receiving lessons in learning the Kurdish language for four hours daily from some of their educated comrades.
After the mistreatment of his comrades by Jafar Baghirov, Barzani decided to move his military group from Azerbaijan on August 29, 1948, to the Jarjuk 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 collective villages in the Soviet Union and worked on Kolkhoz farms (land that people rented from the government and then paid a share 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 Fryazino, so he headed to the Soviet city of Fryazino in November 1951.
He returned with his comrades on April 16, 1959, to Kurdistan aboard the ship Gruzia via the port of Basra in the south of the Republic of Iraq.
In 1963, he participated in the Aylul Revolution and held the position of (Sar-pal - Platoon Commander), participating in the battles of Mount Bers and Seri Akre. He headed with Mulla Mustafa Barzani to the Soran region, and remained until 1975 in the company of his brother Sharif Lashkari.
In 1975, after the Aylul setback, he took refuge in Iran. He initially lived in the Ziveh complex, then was moved to Isfahan and then to Tabriz. In 1980, he participated in the Gulan Revolution and was one of the Peshmerga members in the office of President Masoud Barzani.
He returned in 1995 to South Kurdistan, and on December 11, 2010, during the Thirteenth Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, he was awarded the Barzani Medal by President Masoud Barzani in recognition of his struggle and sacrifices in the Second Revolution of Barzan, and in the Democratic Republic of Kurdistan, as well as his participation in the Aylul and Gulan revolutions and his accompaniment of General Mustafa Barzani to the Soviet Union.
Sources:- Hamid Gawhari, The Barzani Medal is the Highest Honor Award, Volume One, (Erbil - Haji Hashim Printing House - 2015).
- Hamid Gardi, Summary of History, First Edition, (Erbil - Aras Printing and Publishing House - Ministry of Education Printing House - 2004).
- Haider Farouk Al-Samarrai, Dia Jafar and his Political and Economic Role in Iraq, (London – Dar Al-Hikma - 2016).
- Badro Lashkari Hussein, Form of Barzani's Comrades (Barzani Headquarters – Barzan District Committee).
- Text of the General Amnesty Committee decision to rehabilitate the martyrs of the Barzan Revolution, Rizgari Magazine, Issue 3, 2, Al-Rabita Press, Baghdad, April 1, 1959.