Biography

Avdal Misto was born in 1927 in the village of Bawi, affiliated with the Gortu sub-district in the Mergasor district of Erbil province. His father, Mustafa Omar, was one of the guards of General Mustafa Barzani. In 1984, he went as a refugee to the Islamic Republic of Iran and settled in the city of Naghadeh in Eastern Kurdistan. From (1984-1997), he was among the special guards of President Masoud Barzani . In 1997, he returned to Southern Kurdistan. He was retired in 1998 and passed away on July 24, 2003, in Erbil due to cancer.

Career

 In 1945, he joined the ranks of the Second Barzan Revolution. On October 11, 1945, after the defeat 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 framework of the Barzan force and participated in the battles of Miandoab, Bukan, and Saqqez. After the fall of the Republic of Kurdistan, on March 19, 1947, he participated in the battles of the withdrawal of the Barzan force to Iraqi Kurdistan.

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 to stay or head towards the Soviet Union. There, all his companions decided to continue and head towards 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 Maku Bridge. After much hardship and fatigue, on June 18, 1947, he crossed the Aras River, which lies 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. 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, under the supervision of the officers of the Republic of Azerbaijan, were given eight hours of military training daily. At the same time, they were taught Kurdish language lessons daily for four hours by some of their companions who were literate.

After the poor treatment of his companions by Jafar Baghirov, 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 in the Kolkhoz fields (lands that people rented from the government and later gave back the government's share).

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, 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 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 in accordance with 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 granted a 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 by the ship Gruzia via the port of Basra in southern Iraq.

In 1961, he participated in the Aylul Revolution and was a Sergeant and participated in the battles. In 1984, he went as a refugee to the Islamic Republic of Iran and settled in the city of Naghadeh in Eastern Kurdistan. He participated in the  Gulan Revolution and the Uprising. From (1985-1997), he was among the special guards of President Masoud Barzani . In 1997, he returned to Southern Kurdistan and was retired in 1998. He passed away on July 24, 2003, in Erbil due to cancer.

Source:

Archive of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Encyclopedia Board.