the biography
He was born in 1925 in the village of Arkush, which belongs to the Shirwan Mazin district in the Mergasur district of Erbil Governorate. He immigrated to Turkey with his family on June 21, 1932. Before going to the Soviet Union, he married Gulbayaz Aziz Hamid, and they had a son named Muslih Salim (1948).
Salim Rashid Shamdin studied in the Soviet Union and obtained a degree in agricultural arts. In 1959, he was appointed as a technical observer in the Sulaymaniyah Agriculture Department. He was fluent in Kurdish, Turkish, and Russian. He died in 1967 in the village of Arkush, where he was buried.
pages of struggle
In 1943, he joined the ranks of the second Barzan revolution, and on October 12, 1943, he participated in the capture of the Khirzouki police station. On August 19, 1945, all his movable and immovable assets were confiscated by order of the Iraqi military court.
On October 11, 1945, after the setback of the second Barzan revolution, he moved to eastern Kurdistan. On March 31, 1946, he joined as a Peshmerga with Barzani’s forces belonging to the army of the Democratic Republic of Kurdistan in Mahabad. He participated in the battles of the Saqqez front in the Democratic Republic of Kurdistan, and was among his Peshmerga comrades when he returned on April 19, 1947, to the Shirwan and Mazuri regions via (Khakurk and the Barazkarah Plain).
Upon their return, General Mustafa Barzani held a meeting with his comrades in the village of Arkush on May 15, 1947, and gave them the choice of staying or going to the Soviet Union. There, all his comrades decided to continue their journey to the Soviet Union. On May 23, 1947, they accompanied General Mustafa Barzani to the Soviet Union, participating in the battles of Qatur and the Maku Bridge. After great hardship and exhaustion, they crossed the Aras River on June 18, 1947, which forms the border between Iran and the Soviet Union.
Upon their arrival in the Soviet Union on June 19, 1947, he and all his comrades were detained in Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan, for forty days in an open compound surrounded by barbed wire and guarded by soldiers. They were treated as prisoners of war in terms of food, clothing, and transportation. By order of the Soviet government, they were later distributed to the Aghdam, Lachin, Ayulakh, and Kalbajar regions of Azerbaijan. On December 10, 1947, they were transferred to a camp on the Caspian Sea in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan. On December 23, they received military uniforms and underwent eight hours of daily military training under the supervision of Azerbaijani officers. Simultaneously, they received four hours of daily Kurdish language lessons from some of their more educated comrades.
After Jafar Bagirov's mistreatment of his comrades, Barzani decided to move his military assembly from the Republic of Azerbaijan on August 29, 1948, to the Girjuk complex near the Uzbek capital, Tashkent, where they continued their military training.
In March 1949, he and his companions were distributed in groups by train to the cooperative villages in the Soviet Union and worked on the kolkhoz farms (land that people rented from the government and then paid a share of in rent to the government), and he worked in the Shu district near Moscow.
After great efforts and sending several letters from General Barzani to Stalin, Stalin finally received a letter in which Barzani spoke about the suffering of his comrades, and he immediately decided to form a committee to investigate the situation of Barzani’s comrades. The committee’s final decision was that they should be gathered in the city of Frivsky, so in November 1951 he went to the Soviet city of Frivsky.
Following the July 14, 1958 revolution in Iraq and the return of General Mustafa Barzani on February 25, 1959, a general amnesty included Barzani and his companions according to Articles (3 and 7) and Paragraph (a) of Article (10), and the application of Article (11) based on Law No. (19) as amended in 1959.
The Republic of Iraq was founded in 1958 under the leadership of Abdul Karim Qasim, and on April 16, 1959, he returned with his companions to Kurdistan on board the ship Crusia via the port of Basra in southern Iraq.
In 1961 he participated in the September Revolution, and in the same year he participated in the Battle of Pirs and the Resistance Battle in Barzan.
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