Biography

Hali Muhammad Khalani was born in 1927 in the village of Khelan, affiliated with the Mazne sub-district in the Mergasor district of Erbil province. His father, Muhammad Khalani, joined the ranks of the First Barzan Revolution and was martyred in 1932. He studied in the Soviet Union and received a degree in agriculture from Tashkent University, and in 1959 he was appointed as an employee at the Bakrajo Agricultural Department.

Struggle Record

In 1945, he joined the ranks of the Second Barzan Revolution and participated in the battles of this revolution. 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 Maydan Moriki police station. On October 11, 1945, after the collapse of the Second Barzan Revolution, along with Mustafa Barzani and his companions, they crossed into East Kurdistan. After the establishment of the Republic of Kurdistan in Mahabad, on March 31, 1946, he defended the Republic within the framework of the Barzan force. On April 29, 1946, he participated in the Battle of Qarawa in the Saqqez region.

 After the collapse of the Republic of Kurdistan, on the night of March 13-14, 1947, he participated in the Battle of Gujar and was wounded in this battle. After the fall of the Republic of Kurdistan in Mahabad and Barzani's return from East Kurdistan to South Kurdistan, he participated in the Battle of Naqadeh and the Battle of Oshnavieh in East Kurdistan. He was also among the Peshmerga who returned to the Shirwan and Mazuri region on April 19, 1947, through (Khwakurk and the Barazgir plain) via the territory of North Kurdistan.

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 toward the Soviet Union and participated in the Battle of the People of Qotur and the Battle of the Maku Bridge. After much hardship and fatigue, on June 18, 1947, he crossed the Aras River, which lies on the border between Iran and the Soviet Union, into the Soviet Union.

After arriving in the Soviet Union, on June 19, 1947, he and all his companions were placed in the city of Nakhchivan in the Republic of Azerbaijan for forty days in an open-air compound 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 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 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 officers of the Republic of Azerbaijan, were given eight hours of military training daily. At the same time, for four hours a day, they were taught the Kurdish language 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 complex near Tashkent, the capital of the Republic of Uzbekistan, where they continued their military training.

In March 1949, he and his companions 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 the sending of several letters by General Barzani to Stalin, a letter finally reached Stalin in which Barzani described the hardships of his companions, and he immediately ordered the formation of 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 covered by a general amnesty.

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

  Before the outbreak of the Aylul Revolution, he was a personal guard of the immortal Barzani in Baghdad. In Year 1961, he participated in the Aylul Revolution and was a battalion commander. In Year 1962, by order of the immortal Barzani, he went as a support force to the Sharmani cave to join Hasso Mirxan, and in the summer of the same year, they seized several cannons in the Zakho valley and participated in the Battle of Rayat Castle. In 1963, he was the head of the Sari Pirs battle front. On July 25, he participated in the capture of one of the Surchi leaders named Sheikh Tawfiq in the village of Susnava. The same year, he participated in the battles of Shush, Sharman, and the Gomaspan gorge. In July 1965, by order of the immortal Barzani, he was sent to the Country of Iran to attend an artillery course, which lasted one month. In 1974, he participated in the Battle of Mount Gorazi and was an artillery observer. In the same year, he was the general supervisor of the Balak force artillery and participated in the Battle of Alana Valley in the Khalifan region. In the battles of 1974, he was severely wounded and sent abroad for treatment.

 In the year 1975, after the collapse of the September Revolution, he went to the Kingdom of Iran as a refugee and settled in Naghadeh, and later went to Karaj with Mullah Mustafa Barzani. On November 4, 1979, he participated in the Ninth Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, and in the year 1979, he participated in the Gulan Revolution.

 In the year 1980, he returned to Kurdistan with Idris Barzani and Muhammad Khalid Barzani and visited the Bradost organization. In the Year 1987, he participated in the Mergasor ambush, and in 1988, he participated in the Battle of Khwakurk and was the military commander of the Bradost organization.

 In the year 1991, he returned to Southern Kurdistan and participated in the Battle of Kore. On March 12, 1992, after the uprising of the people of Kurdistan, he participated in the uprising in the town of Diana. In the year 1993, he was made the head of the Social Committee of the Dolamari region. On August 16, 1993, at the Eleventh Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, because of his struggle and resistance in the Second Barzan Revolution, the Republic of Kurdistan, the path to the Soviet Union, the September Revolution, the Gulan Revolution, and the uprising, he was awarded the Barzani Medal by President Masoud Barzani. On July 18, 1995, he was martyred in Rawanduz.

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