Biography

Khayrullah Abdulkarim Abdullah was born in 1912 in Erbil Castle. In 1930 he entered the Baghdad Teachers' College and after graduating he was employed as a teacher in Koya Primary School. In 1937 he graduated from the Military College in Baghdad has done

In 1946, he married Saleh Abdul Manaf Saeed Shakak (1932-2001). In 1947, his only daughter, Harbiya, died of cold on the Gadar Bridge and was buried there After the collapse of the Kurdistan Democratic Republic in 1947, he returned to Iraq and was imprisoned in Baghdad Central Prison, where he was executed. He was fluent in Kurdish, Arabic, Turkmen, English and Persian.

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Khayrullah Abdulkarim Abdullah Salim was a member of the Darkar Association in 1939 and joined the ranks of the Kurdish Hope Party in the same year. In 1945 he joined the Second Barzan Revolution and became a member On August 19, 1945, the Military Customary Court ordered the confiscation of all transferred and untransferred funds for his participation in the Second Barzan Revolution (1943-1945). issued

In 1946, the founding committee Kurdish Democratic Party He was promoted to the rank of lieutenant in the Kurdistan Democratic Republic (KDP) in the same year. He served as a commander in the army of the republic on the People's Front of Qasemloo.

In 1946, after the collapse of the Kurdistan Democratic Republic under his command General Mustafa Barzani He fought against the Iranian army in 1903-1979. On April 10, 1947, he was one of the officers who surrendered to the Iraqi police on the Gadar Bridge He was transferred to the central prison in Baghdad and was sentenced to death by a military court in 1945. After his surrender, several prominent people went to Baghdad to demand that the death penalty not be executed He was not executed, but in 1947 he was sentenced to death for the second time in a mock trial on Thursday morning, June 19, 1947, in the courtyard of Baghdad Central Prison The Kurdish prisoners were executed and their bodies were sent back to Erbil. Thousands of Kurds gathered in front of the prison gates to transport his body from Baghdad's central prison to Erbil He was buried in the cemetery of Besh Barmagh in the neighborhood of Tayra in Erbil in the presence of lawyer Auni Yousef Ahmad (1908-1988), a member of the central committee of the Kurdish Democratic Party His comrades wrote a will to the people in which they reaffirmed their position for the freedom of the country.

The execution of Khayrullah and his comrades caused a lot of reaction and the Iraqi Communist Party issued a statement protesting against their execution Faiq Bekas composed a poem entitled Kurdish Nation, which later became an anthem and was read in Sulaimani. Most Kurdish officers in the Iraqi army were saddened by his martyrdom.

In 1959, on his first visit to Erbil, boss Mustafa Barzani On June 20, 1998, he laid a wreath at the grave of martyr Khayrullah in the presence of lawyer Mohsen Dzeyi, the president's representative Massoud Barzani, the unveiling of his statue in Erbil.

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