Biography
Khadr Khalkani was born in 1922 in Khalkani village of Ruandz district in Erbil province. He studied in the Soviet Union and received a degree in agriculture and surveying. He married in the Soviet Union After returning from exile in Iran, he returned to Ghala in 1978 and was employed in Choman Agricultural Office. In 1981 he was transferred to Soran. He knew Kurdish, Arabic and Russian. He died in Soran in 1987 and was buried in the cemetery Soran was buried.
The struggle
In 1944, before joining the Kurdistan Revolution, he was a soldier of the Iraqi government in Rawandz and defected from the army. In the same year, he joined the ranks of the Second Barzan Revolution and participated in the fighting.
On August 19, 1945, all his property was confiscated by order of the Iraqi Military Customary Court. On October 11, 1946, after the collapse of the Second Barzan Revolution, he moved to East Kurdistan with his family. On March 31, 1946, he joined the Barzan forces of the Kurdistan Democratic Republic Army Saqiz region.
After the collapse of the Kurdistan Democratic Republic, he participated in the Battle of Nalos on March 3, 1947 and the Battle of Shino and Naghdeh on March 19.
After their return, Genl Mustafa Barzani On May 6, 1947, he held a meeting with his comrades in the village of Argush and instructed them to stay or go to the Soviet Union Mustafa Barzani He participated in the Battle of Mangur, the Battle of Qtur People and the Mako Bridge. After much hardship and fatigue, he crossed the Aras River on June 18, 1947, which is located on the border between Iran and the Soviet Union
After arriving in the Soviet Union, on June 19, 1947, he and all his comrades were detained in Nakhchevan, Azerbaijan, for forty days in an open community surrounded by barbed wire by a group of soldiers They were guarded and treated like prisoners of war in terms of food, clothing and transportation. They were later divided into Aghdam, Lachin, Ayulakh and Kalbajar regions of Azerbaijan by the decision of the Soviet government. On December 10, 1947, they were transferred to a military base on the Caspian Sea in Baku, the capital of the Republic of Azerbaijan They have been militarized. At the same time, they were taught Kurdish for four hours a day by some of their educated comrades.
After the mistreatment of his comrades, Jafar Bakirov decided to move his military camp from the Republic of Azerbaijan on August 29, 1948 to the community of Chirchuk near Tashkent, the capital of the Republic of Uzbekistan, where they continued military training.
In March 1949, he and his comrades were distributed by train to the villages of the Soviet Union and worked on the farms of the kolkhozes (land that people rented from the government and then paid back to the government).
After much effort and sending several letters by General Barzani to Stalin, Stalin finally received a letter in which Barzani talked about the suffering of his comrades and he immediately decided to form a committee to investigate the situation of Barzani's comrades November 1951 Moves to Vrevisky, Soviet Union.
After the July 14, 1958 revolution in Iraq and the return of the general Mustafa BarzaniOn February 25, 1959, he and his comrades were granted a general amnesty under Articles 3 and 7, paragraph (a) of Article 10 and Article 11 of the 1959 Amended Law.
In 1958, the Iraqi Republic was established under the leadership of Abdulkarim Qasim. On April 16, 1959, he returned to Kurdistan with his comrades on the ship Georgia via the port of Basra in the south of the Iraqi Republic.
1961 Participation The September RevolutionHe participated in the battles of Hassan Beg, Sartiz, Handren and Garwi Beshe The September Revolution He was in charge of Barzewa checkpoint. He fled to Iran in 1975 after the collapse of the September Revolution. After a year of exile, he returned to Kurdistan and was transferred to southern Iraq by the Iraqi government He belongs to Souq al-Sheikh district in Nasiriyah province.
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