Khalil Avadori was born in 1900 in the village of Avadori, part of the Barzan sub-district in the Mergasor district of Erbil Governorate. He studied in the agricultural department of the Agricultural Institute in the Soviet Union. He married in the Soviet Union. He knew the Kurdish, Arabic, and Russian languages. He had a son named Mustafa Khalil who was born in 1965; he was disappeared in 1983.
Struggle HistoryOn October 11, 1945, after the failure of the Second Barzan Revolution, he crossed over to Eastern Kurdistan with Mustafa Barzani and his companions. 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 and participated in the battles of the Saqqez front.
After the fall of the Republic of Kurdistan in Mahabad and Barzani's return from Eastern Kurdistan, he was among the Peshmerga who returned to the Shirwan and Muzuri region through the territory of Northern Kurdistan on April 19, 1947, via (Xwakurk and the Barazgir plain).
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 of staying or heading towards the Soviet Union. There, all his companions decided to continue and go towards the Soviet Union. On May 23, 1947, he accompanied General Mustafa Barzani towards the Soviet Union and participated in the Battle of Gali Qotur 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, he and all his companions were placed in an open-air compound surrounded by barbed wire in the city of Nakhchivan in the Republic of Azerbaijan for forty days. 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 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 were trained for eight hours of military exercises daily under the supervision of officers of the Republic of Azerbaijan. At the same time, for four hours daily, they were taught the Kurdish language by some of their companions who were literate.
After Jafar Bagirov's poor treatment of his companions, it was decided to move the military camp from the Republic of Azerbaijan on August 29, 1948, to the Charchuk community 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 in the Kolkhoz fields (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. He immediately decided to form a committee to investigate the Situation of Barzani's companions, and the committee's decision was that they should all be gathered in the city of Vrevitsky. Therefore, he went to the city of Vrevitsky 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 the general amnesty.
In 1958, the Republic of Iraq was established under the presidency of Abdul 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.
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