Biography

He was born in 1915 in the village of Bestre, which is part of the Goretu district of the Mergasor sub-district of Erbil. On June 21, 1932, he migrated with his family to the Republic of Turkey. After the defeat of the Second Barzan Revolution and their departure to East Kurdistan to defend the Democratic Republic of Kurdistan, both his wife and children passed away. Sharif Lashkari studied in the Soviet Union and received a diploma in agriculture. After returning from the Soviet Union, he was appointed to the Erbil Agriculture Office in 1959. He spoke both Kurdish and Russian. In 1967, while on duty, he lost his life due to a heart attack and was buried in the village of Museka.

Career

Before the start of the Second Barzan Revolution, Sharif Lashkari was a rebel in 1942. In 1943, he joined the ranks of the Second Barzan Revolution. He participated in the Battle of Dola Nar on October 2, 1943, in the capture of the Shanader police station, on October 12 in the capture of the Xerezok police station, and on October 20 in the capture of the Sherwan police station. Furthermore, on August 8, 1945, he participated in the capture of the Mergasor police station, and on September 12, 1945, he participated in the Battle of Sere Akre, where he was severely wounded. On August 19 of the same year, all his movable and immovable property was confiscated by the Iraqi Military Court.

After the defeat of the Second Barzan Revolution, he crossed into East Kurdistan on October 11, 1945. On March 31, 1946, along with his two brothers, Ahmed Lashkari and Bedro Lashkari, he became a Peshmerga in the Barzani Forces of the Army of the Democratic Republic of Kurdistan. He participated in the battles of Qelatan, Kelash, and Piranshar in East Kurdistan, and on April 29 of the same year, he participated in the Battle of Qarawa in the Saqqez region.

After the collapse of the Democratic Republic of Kurdistan, on March 3, 1947, he participated in the Battle of Nelos, on March 13-14 in the Battle of Gucar, and on March 19 in the Battle of Naghadeh and Oshnavieh. Furthermore, on March 24, 1947, Sharif Lashkari participated in the Battle of Qarne in the Khane region, and on March 25, he participated in the Battle of Havrs and Helec.

He was one of the Peshmerga who, on April 19, 1947, returned to the Sherwan and Mizuri regions via Xwakurk and the Berazgir Plain through North Kurdistan.

After their return, General Mustafa Barzani held a meeting with his comrades on May 15, 1947, in the village of Ergoş and gave them the choice to either stay or go to the Soviet Union. There, all his comrades decided to continue and go to the Soviet Union. On May 22, 1947, along with General Mustafa Barzani he headed towards the Soviet Union and participated in the Battle of the Qitur Valley and the Battle of the Mako Bridge. After many hardships and difficulties, on June 18, 1947, he crossed the Aras River on the border between Iran and the Soviet Union into the Soviet Union.

After their arrival in the Soviet Union, on June 19, 1947, he and all his comrades were settled in the city of Nakhchivan in the Republic of Azerbaijan for forty days in a closed camp surrounded by barbed wire. They were guarded by a group of soldiers and were treated as prisoners of war in terms of food, clothing, and transportation. Later, by the decision of the Soviet state, they were distributed in Azerbaijan in the regions of Aghdam, Lachin, Ayulax, and Kalbajar. On December 10, 1947, they were transferred to a military base 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 underwent 8 hours of military training daily under the supervision of officers of the Republic of Azerbaijan. At the same time, they received four hours of Kurdish language lessons daily from some of their educated comrades.

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

In March 1949, he and his comrades were distributed in groups by train to the villages of the Soviet Union and worked on collective farms (lands that people had received from the state and then gave a share to the government).

After much effort and sending several letters from General Barzani to Stalin, a letter finally reached Stalin in which Barzani described the suffering and pain of his comrades. He immediately ordered the formation of a committee to investigate the situation of Barzani's comrades, and in the end, the committee's decision was to gather them all in the city of Vriviski. For this reason, he went to the city of Vriviski 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, according to articles 3 and 7, paragraph (a) of article 10, and article 11 of the amendment law number 19 of 1959, a general amnesty was granted to him and his comrades.

In 1958, the Republic of Iraq was established under the leadership of Abd al-Karim Qasim. On April 16, 1959, he returned to Kurdistan with his comrades via the ship Girozya through the port of Basra in the south of the Republic of Iraq.

In 1961, he participated in the September Revolution and participated in the battles of Lolan, Meydanok, Zelkoka, Mireba, Mount Metin, Etrosh, Girkal, Balekiyan, Badilya, and Gelye Omer Axa. He became a captain in 1962.

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