Asaad Khoshawi Audish was born in 1918 in the village of Silke, affiliated with the Shirwan Mazn sub-district of the Mergasor district in Erbil province. Due to the poor Situation in the region and the lack of schools, he did not complete his education. In 1932, within the framework of the First Barzan Revolution (1932-1933), he and his family were relocated by the then-government of Iraq to the cities of Tal Afar near the city of Mosul, Fallujah, Hit, and Ramadi. In 1932, a death sentence was issued against him, but because he was under eighteen years of age, the sentence was not carried out. In 1936, after his two brothers, Khalil Khoshawi and Salim Khoshawi, were martyred, he was released from Mosul prison and returned with his family to the village of Silke. After a while, they were deported for a second time to Akre in the village of Birekapra. Upon the recommendation of Sheikh Ahmed and Mullah Mustafa, he went to Shawkat Agha of Birekapra to obtain a government position, and on the recommendation of Shawkat Agha, he became the responsible official for the Birekapra police. He married twice; the first time to Asma Nabi, with whom he had one son and two daughters named Salim, Ka'bat, and Mu'tabar, and the second time to Asia Bahram Nuri Beg, with whom they had a son named Muhammad.
Struggle RecordIn 1943, he joined the ranks of the Second Barzan Revolution (1943-1945). On October 15, 1943, he participated in the capture of the Birekapra police station and participated in the capture of police stations in the Barzan region. In 1945, he was responsible for besieging the Blee military base and the Provision of supplies for the Akre front.
Due to his participation in the Second Barzan Revolution, on August 19, 1945, by order of the Iraqi Military Tribunal, all his movable and immovable property was seized.
On October 11, 1945, after the collapse of the Second Barzan Revolution, he headed to Eastern Kurdistan and settled in the Targawar region. By the decision of the Military Tribunal in Erbil, numbered 98, issued on December 1, 1945, based on Article 11, Number 18 of 1935, a death sentence and confiscation of public property were issued against him. On March 31, 1946, he served as a Peshmerga in the ranks of the Barzan force affiliated with the army of the Republic of Kurdistan and participated in the battles of the Saqqez front in Eastern Kurdistan. In 1946, he was granted the rank of Colonel by General Mustafa Barzani. After the collapse of the Republic of Kurdistan in 1947, he was responsible for the Margawar defense front. On April 15, 1947, after the decision to return with the force of General Mustafa Barzani , he crossed the Gadar River and returned to Iraqi Kurdistan. At that time, the force was divided into five parts, and he became responsible for one of those parts. On May 6, 1947, he participated in the meeting of the village of Argoshi.
On May 23, 1947, he accompanied Barzani towards the Soviet Union. On May 28, 1947, at the request of Mirhaj Ahmed, he participated in the meeting to draft the route plan in the village of Jirme. On June 9-11, 1947, he participated in the battles of the Qotur Valley and the Maku Bridge in Eastern Kurdistan. On June 18, 1947, he crossed the Aras River, which is located on the international border between Iran and the Soviet Union, towards the Soviet Union. On June 19, 1947, along with all his companions in Nakhchivan of the Republic of Azerbaijan, they were placed for forty days in an open-air complex surrounded by barbed wire, guarded by a group of soldiers, and were treated as prisoners of war in terms of food, clothing, and movement. Later, by the decision of the Soviet Union, they were distributed among the regions of Aghdam, Lachin, and Ayulakh in the Republic of Azerbaijan.
On December 10, 1947, they were transferred to the Baku camp in the Republic of Azerbaijan. On December 22, 1947, he became a regiment commander, 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, they were given eight hours of Military training daily. Daily, for four hours, they were taught the Kurdish language by some of their companions.
On August 29, 1948, along with all his companions, they were transferred 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 transferred in groups and squads by plane to the island of Monyak in the middle of the Aral Sea, where he worked for eight hours a day in a fish factory. In November 1951, he returned to Vrevsky. In 1954, he went with Mullah Mustafa Barzani from Tashkent to Moscow for his medical treatment.
On August 21, 1958, he accompanied Mustafa Barzani to Romania, Czechoslovakia, and later Cairo, the capital of Egypt. On October 6, 1958, they arrived in Baghdad at the Muthanna Military airport. Later, by the order of Mustafa Barzani, he returned to the Soviet Union to inform the companions of Mustafa Barzani to return to Southern Kurdistan. On April 16, 1959, along with his companions, he returned to Southern Kurdistan via the port of Basra in the south of the Republic of Iraq on the ship Grozia. After his return from the Soviet Union, he was granted a general amnesty by the authorities of the Republic of Iraq, based on the tenth article, paragraph 1, item 73, which was issued by the Council of Ministers based on the amended Law No. 19 of 1959 on February 25, 1959, for himself and his companions.
On September 11, 1961, he participated in the Aylul Revolution. On October 21, 1961, he was the personal assistant to Mustafa Barzani in the Nerwa region, later he was made the personal bodyguard of Mullah Mustafa Barzani. On February 12, 1962, by the decision of Mullah Mustafa Barzani He was made Commander of the Badinan Army. In Year 1962, a radio station in the Berwari Bala region was under his command. On May 16, 1963, he participated in the Koya meeting presided over by Mullah Mustafa Barzani, which was about how to reach an agreement on the rights of the Kurd nation. In Year 1963, he was made Commander of the Amadiya (Duhok) region. In Year 1964, he was Commander of the First Badinan Army. On March 13, 1974, he was made Commander of the First Army, whose headquarters was in Zewa, and he participated in the Battle of Garu-i Omar Agha.
In 1975, after the collapse of the September Revolution, he went as a refugee to the Country of Iran and settled in the city of Karaj. In 1976, on the orders of Mullah Mustafa Barzani, he assisted Idris Barzani and Masoud Barzani in reorganizing the Peshmerga detachments for the start of the Gulan Revolution and formed several Peshmerga detachments among the displaced refugees. With the help of the Kurds of Eastern, Northern, and Western Kurdistan, they were sent to Southern Kurdistan. On May 31, 1977, due to illness, he passed away in one of the hospitals in the city of Tehran, and on June 1, 1977, he was buried in the cemetery of the city of Oshnavieh in Eastern Kurdistan.
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