Biography

 Khedr Mela Wesman was born in 1923 in the Shanadar cave, belonging to the Goratu sub-district in the Mergasor district of Erbil province, but he was originally from the village of Binebian. He also studied in the Soviet Union, and in 1954 he received an institute diploma from the University of Tashkent in the Department of Agriculture. After returning from the Soviet Union, in 1959 he was appointed as an employee in the Sarçinar Agriculture Department. After the outbreak of Aylul Revolution he left his job and later, after the signing of the 1970 agreement, he returned to his previous job in Sarçinar. After the collapse of 1975, he became a refugee in Iran, but in 1976, because his wife and children were in Sulaymaniyah, he returned to Sulaymaniyah by taking advantage of the general amnesty and with the permission of the leadership. He was re-employed in the agriculture administration and later transferred to the Mergasor Agriculture Department. He passed away in Erbil on April 12, 2011.

Struggle Record

In 1943, he joined the ranks of the Second Barzan Revolution. On August 19, 1945, by order of the Iraqi Military Extraordinary Court, all his movable and immovable property was seized. On September 5, 1945, he participated in the capture of the Medan Morik police station. On October 11, after the collapse of the Second Barzan Revolution, he went with his family to Eastern Kurdistan. On March 31, 1946, he served as a Peshmerga in the Barzan Force affiliated with the army of the Republic of Kurdistan, and on April 29, he participated in the Battle of Qarawa in the Saqqez region.

 After the collapse of the Republic of Kurdistan, on March 19, 1947, he participated in the Battle of Oshnavieh and Naghadeh. He was among the Peshmerga who returned to the Shirwan and Mazuri region through the (Khwakurk and Barazgir plain) route through the territory of Northern Kurdistan on April 19, 1947.

After their return, General Mustafa Barzani held a meeting with his companions in the village of Argush on May 6, 1947, and gave them the choice of staying or going 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 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, 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, and they were guarded by a group of soldiers. In terms of food, clothing, and movement, they were treated like prisoners of war. 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, and 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 given eight hours of military training daily. At the same time, for four hours a day, they were taught lessons in learning the Kurdish language by some of their companions who were literate.

After the bad treatment of his companions by Jafar Bagirov, Barzani decided to move the military camp from the Republic of Azerbaijan on August 29, 1948, 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 teams 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 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 the implementation of 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 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 Grozia. 

 In the year 1961, when the Aylul Revolution broke out, he was arrested by the Iraqi government and was in prison for 59 days and was later released. Due to the deterioration of his health, he underwent surgery, and after recovering, he was arrested again by the Iraqi government for three months on charges of contacting the Peshmerga. He was released by general amnesty and returned to the Mergasor region. Later, he went to the Qaladize and Chwarqurna region with the Heso Mirxan force. He was in that force until 1970. On April 24, 1974, due to the bombing of the Qaladize region by the Iraqi Air Force, he helped collect the martyrs and the wounded in the Qaladize mosque.

 In 1975, after the collapse of the Aylul Revolution, he went to Iran as a refugee and settled in the Zewe complex. In 1991, he participated in the uprising of Erbil and Kirkuk, and was with the Barzan force in Khalifan, Kani Shakran, and Sardaw. In 1994, due to the civil war, he settled in Salahaddin. On December 16, 2010, at the Thirteenth Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, because of his struggle and resistance in the second Barzan revolution, the Republic of Kurdistan, the march towards the Soviet Union and Aylul Revolution، Gulan Revolution and the uprising by President Masoud Barzani he was awarded the Barzani the Immortal Medal.

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