Biography

Khidir Isa Dolemari was born in 1927 in the village of Giske, affiliated with the Goratu sub-district in the Mergasor district of Erbil Governorate. After the collapse of the first Barzan revolution, when Sheikh Ahmad Barzani and a large number of Barzani families took refuge in Northern Kurdistan, he and his family were displaced to the Republic of Turkey on June 21, 1932. However, after the Turkish authorities handed Sheikh Ahmad Barzani over to the government of Iraq in 1933, their family, like all the families who had been displaced to Northern Kurdistan with Sheikh Ahmad, returned to Southern Kurdistan.

Khidir Isa studied in the Soviet Union and received a bachelor's degree in agriculture from Tashkent University in 1954. After returning from the Soviet Union, he was employed as a civil servant in the Erbil Agriculture Department in 1959. After he left his job due to his participation in the Aylul Revolution , he returned to his previous job in Erbil in 1970. He knew three languages: Kurdish, Arabic, and Russian. He passed away on May 7, 2005, in one of the hospitals in the city of Tehran and was buried in the cemetery of the village of Giske.

Struggle Record

On October 11, 1945, after the collapse of the second Barzan revolution, he headed to Eastern Kurdistan with his family. On March 31, 1946, he was a Peshmerga in the Barzan force affiliated with the army of the Republic of Kurdistan. On April 29, 1946, he participated in the Battle of Qarawa in the Saqqez region. After the collapse of the Republic of Kurdistan, he participated in the Battle of Oshnavieh and Naghadeh on March 19, 1947.

 He was among the Peshmerga who returned to the Shirwan and Mizuri region through Northern Kurdistan via (Khwakurk and the Barazgir plain) on April 19, 1947.

After their return, General Mustafa Barzani held a meeting with his companions on May 6, 1947, in the village of Argush and gave them the choice of staying or heading towards the Soviet Union. There, all the 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 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. 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, Ayolakh, 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, for four hours a day, they were taught the Kurdish language by some of their companions who were literate.

After the mistreatment of the companions by Jafar Baghirov, it was decided to move the military camp from the Republic of Azerbaijan on August 29, 1948, to the Charchuk compound 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 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 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 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. 

 In 1961, he participated in the Aylul Revolution. In the same year, he participated in the Battle of Shush and Sharmna. In 1962, he was made a Sarliq. On the night of June 14-15, 1963, he participated in the Battle of Sari Akre and Pirs, and on August 4, he participated in the Battle of Barzan and Blee.

 In 1974, he went to the Akre region and in the same year participated in the Battle of Mount Hasan Beg. In 1975, after the collapse of the Aylul Revolution, he fled to Iran as a refugee and went to the Zewe compound and later settled in the city of Kerman. In 1979, he returned to the Zewe compound and participated in the Gulan Revolution, and participated in the battles of Lolan, the Barazgir plain, Akre, and Shekhani.

 On July 19, 1988, he participated in the Battle of Khwakurk, and on August 13, he participated in the Battle of Khardn. In the same year, during the chemical bombardment of the Badinan region, he returned to the Zewe compound.

 In 1991, he participated in the uprising and took part in the Battle of Kore. In 1996, he was made a member of the Social Committee of the Dolemari region. On October 6, 1999, at the Twelfth Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party due to his struggle and resistance in the second Barzan revolution, the Republic of Kurdistan, the journey towards the Soviet Union, Aylul Revolution، and the Gulan Revolution, the uprising by President Masoud Barzani was awarded the Barzani the Immortal medal.

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