Biography

Hado Qadir Qadir was born in 1927 in the village of Bawe, affiliated with the Goratu sub-district in the Mergasor district of Erbil province. His father, Qadir, who was known as Qadir Barzani, was martyred in the war of the Republic of Kurdistan. Hado Qadir was proficient in both Kurdish and Russian languages. He passed away on the night of February 27-28, 2003, and was buried in the Mergasor cemetery.

Struggle Record

In 1943, he joined the ranks of the Second Barzan Revolution. In the same year, he participated in the Battle of Seberkhoshi, which is located between the Mergasor district and the village of Bawe. On August 19, 1945, by order of the Iraqi military tribunal, all his movable and immovable property was seized. On September 5, 1945, he participated in the capture of the Meydan Morik police station.

 After the defeat of the Second Barzan Revolution on October 11, 1945, he headed to East Kurdistan. On March 31, 1946, he continued his Peshmerga service in the Barzan force affiliated with the army of the Republic of Kurdistan in Mahabad. On April 29, 1946, he participated in the Battle of Qarawa in the Saqqez region. After the defeat of the Republic of Kurdistan, he participated in the Battle of Naghadeh and Oshnavieh on March 19, 1947.

 He was among the Peshmerga who returned to the Shirwan and Mazuri region through North Kurdistan on April 19, 1947, via the Khwakurk and Bazargir plain route.

After their return, General Mustafa Barzani held a meeting with his companions on May 6, 1947, in the village of Argosh and gave them the choice to stay or go to the Soviet Union. There, all his companions decided to continue and go to the Soviet Union. On May 23, 1947, he accompanied General Mustafa Barzani towards the Soviet Union and participated in the Battle of Qotur Valley and the Battle of Maku Bridge. After much hardship and fatigue, on June 18, 1947, he crossed the Aras River, which is located on the border between Iran and the Soviet Union, into the Soviet Union.

After arriving in the Soviet Union, on June 19, 1947, along with all his companions, they were placed in the city of Nakhchivan in the Republic of Azerbaijan for forty days in an open-air complex 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 movement. Later, by the decision of the Soviet government, they were distributed among the regions of Aghdam, Lachin, Ayulakh, and Kalbajar in the Republic of Azerbaijan. On December 10, 1947, they were transferred to a military camp on the Caspian Sea in Baku, the capital of the Republic of Azerbaijan. On the 23rd of the same month, they were given military uniforms and, under the supervision of the officers of the Republic of Azerbaijan, were trained for eight hours of military exercises daily. At the same time, they were taught the Kurdish language for four hours daily by some of their companions who were literate.

After the bad treatment of the companions by Jafar Baghirov, it was decided to move the military camp on August 29, 1948, from the Republic of Azerbaijan to the Charchuk complex 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 in the Kolkhoz farms (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, a letter finally reached Stalin in which Barzani described the hardships of his companions, and he immediately decided to form a committee to investigate the situation of Barzani's companions. Eventually, the committee's decision was that they should all be gathered in the city of Vrevsky, so he went to the city of Vrevsky 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, and according to both the third and seventh articles and paragraph (a) of the tenth article, and by applying Article (11) based on the amended Law No. 19 of 1959, he and his companions were granted a general amnesty.

In 1958, the Republic of Iraq was established under the presidency of Abdul Karim Qasim. On April 16, 1959, he returned to Kurdistan with his companions on the ship Gruzia via the port of Basra in the south of the Republic of Iraq. 

 In 1961, he participated in the Aylul Revolution and on June 14-15, 1963, he participated in the Battle of Sari Akre. He also participated in the battles of Handren and Diana Plain. He participated in the Gulan Revolution and the Zozik epic, and participated in the uprising of the people of Kurdistan in 1991.

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