Biography

Ali Khan Awdel Ahmed was born in 1918 in the village of Kanieta, affiliated with the Sherwan Mazn sub-district in the Mergasor district of Erbil Governorate. In 1975, after the collapse of the Aylul Revolution he was displaced to the country of Iran. He passed away in 1981 in Tehran, the capital of Iran.

Struggle Record

On May 22, 1947, he accompanied General Mustafa Barzani towards the Soviet Union and participated in the Battle of Gali Kotol (Qotur) and the Battle of the 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, towards the Soviet Union.

After arriving in the Soviet Union, on June 19, 1947, along with all his companions, he was placed in the city of Nakhchivan in the Republic of Azerbaijan for forty days in an open complex surrounded by barbed wire, and they were guarded by a group of soldiers and were treated like prisoners of war in terms of food, clothing, and movement. Later, by the decision of the Soviet government, they were distributed to the regions of Aghdam, Lachin, Ayulakh, and Kalbajar in the Republic of Azerbaijan. On December 10, 1947, they were transferred to a 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 Azerbaijani officers, they were given eight hours of military training daily. At the same time, they were taught the Kurdish language daily for four hours by some of their companions who were literate.

After Jafar Baghirov's bad treatment of Barzani's companions, 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, and they continued their military training there. 

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

After much effort and sending several letters by General Barzani to Stalin, finally a letter 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, and finally 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.

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

In 1961, he joined the Peshmerga forces of the Aylul Revolution and participated in the battles. He passed away in 1981 in Tehran, the capital of Iran.

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