Biography

Dawud Yuhanna Lawko was born in Urmia (Eastern Kurdistan), knew the Russian language, and after his return from the Soviet Union, he returned to Iran and passed away in Karaj.

Struggle Record

In 1941, he was a soldier of the Soviet Union when they came to Eastern Kurdistan. After the withdrawal of the Soviet army and the fall of the Republic of Kurdistan in Mahabad, on May 28, 1947, in the village of Bardasur in Eastern Kurdistan, he participated in the march towards the Soviet Union and participated in the battles of the march. On June 16 of the same year, when they reached the Aras River, as a representative of Barzani the immortal, he crossed the river to notify the police station that Mulla Mustafa had reached the Aras River and should be allowed to cross. After his companions crossed the Aras River on June 18, which is located on the international border of Iran with the Soviet Union, on June 19, 1947, along with all his companions in the city of Nakhchivan in the Republic of Azerbaijan, they were placed for forty days in an open-air compound surrounded by barbed wire and were guarded by a group of soldiers, and were treated as prisoners of war in terms of food, clothing, and movement. Later, by the decision of the Soviet government, they were distributed among the regions of Aghdam, Lachin, Ayolakh, and Kalbajar in the Republic of Azerbaijan. On December 10, 1947, they were moved to a military camp 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, under the supervision of the officers of the Republic of Azerbaijan, they were given eight hours of military training daily. At the same time, for four hours a day, they were taught Kurdish language lessons by some of their companions who were literate.

After the mistreatment of his companions by Jafar Baghirov, it was decided to move the military camp on August 29, 1948, from the Republic of Azerbaijan to the Charchuk compound near Tashkent, the capital of the Republic of Uzbekistan, where they continued their military training.

In March 1949, along with his companions, they were distributed in groups and squads by train among the collective villages of the Soviet Union and worked on the collective farms (the lands that people rented from the government and later gave the government's share back).

After much effort and sending several letters by General Barzani to Stalin, finally a letter reached Stalin in which Barzani describes the hardships of his companions, and he immediately decides to form a committee to investigate the situation of Barzani's companions, and finally the committee's decision is that they should all be gathered in the city of Vriviski, so he went to the city of Vriviski in the Soviet Union in November 1951. On April 16, 1959, along with his companions, he returned to Kurdistan via the port of Basra in the south of the Republic of Iraq on the ship Grozia. 

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