Biography

Avdel Masto was born in 1927 in Bawei village of Goratu district of Mergasuri district of Erbil province. His father, Mustafa Omar, was one of the general's bodyguards Mustafa Barzani. . . . In 1984, he fled to the Islamic Republic of Iran and settled in Naghdeh, East Kurdistan Massoud Barzani has been In 1997 he returned to South Kurdistan. He retired in 1998 and died of cancer on July 24, 2003 in Erbil.

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 In 1945 he joined the ranks of the Second Barzan Revolution. On October 11, 1945, after the collapse of the Second Barzan Revolution, he was arrested Mustafa Barzani and his comrades crossed to East Kurdistan. After the establishment of the Kurdistan Democratic Republic in Mahabad, he defended the republic in the Barzan forces on March 31, 1946. He participated in the battles of Miandaw, Bokan and Saqiz. After the collapse of the Kurdistan Democratic Republic, on March 19, 1947, he participated in the withdrawal of Barzan forces to Iraqi Kurdistan.

After their return, General Mustafa Barzani held a meeting with his comrades in Argosh village on May 6, 1947 and instructed them to stay or go to the Soviet Union Mustafa Barzani He participated in the Battle of Qtur People and the Battle of 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 In November 1951, he moved 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 Abdul Karim Qasim. On April 16, 1959, he returned to Kurdistan with his comrades on the ship Georgia via the port of Basra in southern Iraq.

1961 Participation The September RevolutionHe was a soldier and participated in the battles. In 1984, he moved to the Islamic Republic of Iran as a refugee and settled in Naghdeh, East Kurdistan. Participation in the revolution  Gulan and has revolted. In 1985-1997, he was a member of the president's special guards Massoud Barzani has been He returned to South Kurdistan in 1997 and retired in 1998. He died of cancer on July 24, 2003 in Erbil.

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Archive of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Encyclopedia Board.