Qadir Badin was born in the year 1918 in the village of Dizo, which belongs to the Shirwan Mazn sub-district in the Mergasor district of Erbil Governorate. He married Shirin Jundi Suleiman before going to the Soviet Union, and in the year 1945, they had a daughter whom they named (Fahima). He also married a second time in the Soviet Union to Aisha Bilal, and in the year 1951, he had a daughter from her whom they named (Jawahir). His second wife was of Tatar nationality from the Crimean Peninsula (Ukrainian Republic). He left the Soviet Union and returned to Kurdistan, but his wife and his daughter, who was 8 years old at the time, did not return to Kurdistan and remained in Uzbekistan.
Struggle PagesBadin Qadir joined the ranks of the Second Revolution of Barzan in the year 1945, when he was no more than thirteen years old. Due to his young age, he took charge of serving the Peshmerga by delivering food to the headquarters and battlefields.
On November 11, 1945, after the setback of the Second Revolution of Barzan, he crossed with Mustafa Barzani and his comrades into Eastern Kurdistan. After the establishment of the Democratic Republic of Kurdistan in Mahabad, on March 31, 1946, he defended the Republic within the framework of the Barzan force.
After the collapse of the Republic of Kurdistan in Mahabad and the return of Barzani from Eastern Kurdistan to Southern Kurdistan, he participated in the battles of Naghadeh and Oshnavieh in Eastern Kurdistan. He was among his Peshmerga comrades when he returned on 19/4/1947 via (Khwakurk and the Barazgara Plain), crossing the lands of Northern Kurdistan to the Shirwan and Mazuri regions.
After their return, General Mustafa Barzani held a meeting with his comrades in the village of Arkosh on 15/5/1947 and gave them the choice to stay or go to the Soviet Union. There, all his comrades decided to continue and head to the Soviet Union. On May 23, 1947, he accompanied General Mustafa Barzani to the Soviet Union. He participated in the battles of Qotur and the Maku Bridge, and after great hardship and extreme exhaustion, he crossed the Aras River on June 18, 1947, which is located on the border between Iran and the Soviet Union.
After their arrival in the Soviet Union, on June 19, 1947, he and all his comrades were detained in the city of Nakhchivan in the Republic of Azerbaijan for forty days in an open compound surrounded by barbed wire guarded by soldiers. They were treated as prisoners of war in terms of food, clothing, and transportation. By a decision of the Soviet government, they were later distributed to the regions of Aghdam, Lachin, Yevlakh, and Kalbajar in the Republic of Azerbaijan. On December 10, 1947, they were moved to a camp on the Caspian Sea in the capital of the Azerbaijani Republic, Baku. On the 23rd of the same month, they received military uniforms, and they were receiving military training for eight hours daily under the supervision of officers from the Republic of Azerbaijan. At the same time, they were receiving lessons in learning the Kurdish language for four hours daily from some of their educated comrades.
After Jafar Baghirov's mistreatment of his comrades, Barzani decided to move his military assembly from Azerbaijan on August 29, 1948, to the Jarjok compound near the Uzbek capital, Tashkent, where they continued their military training.
In March 1949, he and his comrades were distributed in groups by train to the collective villages in the Soviet Union and worked on the Kolkhoz farms (land that people would rent from the government and then pay a share to the government from it).
After great efforts and sending several letters from General Barzani to Stalin, Stalin finally received a letter in which Barzani spoke about the suffering of his comrades, and he immediately decided to form a committee to investigate the situation of Barzani's comrades. The committee's final decision was that they should be gathered in the city of Vrevsky, so he headed in November 1951 to the Soviet city of Vrevsky.
After the July 14, 1958 revolution in Iraq and the return of General Mustafa Barzani, on February 25, 1959, he and his comrades were included in the general amnesty according to Articles (3) and (7) and Paragraph (A) of Article (10), and the implementation of Article (11) under Law No. (19) as amended for the year 1959.
After Jafar Baghirov's mistreatment of his comrades, Barzani decided to move his military assembly from Azerbaijan on August 29, 1948, to the Jarjok compound near the Uzbek capital, Tashkent, where they continued their military training.
After the issuance of the order for their pardon on April 16, 1959, he returned to Kurdistan with his comrades on the cruise ship Gruzia via the port of Basra in southern Iraq. He participated in Aylul Revolution In the year 1963, he was martyred in the village of Spindara in the Khoshnawati region at the foot of Mount Hawri, and he was buried there.
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