Avdal Bzhiani was born in 1925 in the village of Bzhiani, affiliated with the Shirwan Mazn sub-district of Mergasor district in Erbil province. He completed his primary education and was married twice; the first time in Kurdistan to Maryam Ahmed, with whom he had a son named Hussein, and the second time in the Soviet Union, with whom he had two daughters. He knew Kurdish, Arabic, and Russian, and passed away in 1957 in the Soviet Union.
Struggle RecordIn 1943, he joined the ranks of the Second Barzan Revolution and in the same year participated in the battle to capture the Khirazok police station. For this reason, on August 19, 1945, by order of the military tribunal, all his movable and immovable property was seized. On September 5 of the same year, he participated in the capture of the Maydan Morik and Dolavazhi police stations in the Mergasor area.
On October 11, 1945, after the collapse of the Second Barzan Revolution, he crossed into 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 Barzan force and participated in the battles of the Saqqez front. After the fall of the Republic, on April 15, 1947, he crossed the Gadar River with Sheikh Ahmed Barzani and returned to Iraqi Kurdistan. Due to illness and the hardship of life in the semi-imprisonment, his wife and only son passed away.
After the agreement of the three countries of Iraq, Iran, and Turkey against the force of General Mustafa Barzani, on May 23, 1947, and after the large gathering in the village of Dre and the decision to go to the Soviet Union, he decided not to separate from the force. At the beginning of the journey, in the village of Dre, he was wounded due to the bombing by the Iraqi Air Force, and after initial treatment, he participated in the battles of the journey. On June 18, 1947, he crossed the Aras River, which is located on the border between Iran and the Soviet Union, toward 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 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 the Kurdish language by some of their companions who were literate.
After the bad treatment of his companions by Jafar Bagirov, it was decided to move the military camp on August 29, 1948, from the Republic of Azerbaijan to the Charchuk compound near Tashkent, the capital of the Republic of Uzbekistan, where they continued their military training.
In March 1949, along with his companions, they were distributed in groups and squads 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 a share to the government).
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 ordered the formation of 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 Vriviski, so he went to the city of Vriviski in the Soviet Union in November 1951, where he passed away in 1957.
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