the biography
Salim Sheikhomer Ahmed was born in 1888 in the village of Bidud, which belongs to the Piran district in the Mergasur district of Erbil Governorate. He married after going to the Soviet Union and had a daughter named Lyudmila. He was fluent in both Kurdish and Russian languages and died in 1954 in Uzbekistan, where his body was buried.
pages of struggle
In 1931 he joined the ranks of the first Barzan revolution, and on April 3, 1932 he participated in the Dolavazi field battle, and on June 21, 1932 he took refuge with his family in the Turkish Republic. In 1943 he joined the ranks of the second Barzan revolution and participated in the battles, and on August 19, 1945 all his movable and immovable property was 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 Barzani's forces and served as a Peshmerga in the army of the Kurdistan Democratic Republic. He participated in the battles of Saleh Awa, Sirwa, and Margawr in eastern Kurdistan, and on May 3, 1946, he participated in the Battle of Malqarni. After the collapse of the Kurdistan Democratic Republic, on March 25, 1947, he participated in the battles of Hevers and Halji.
He was among his Peshmerga comrades, and on April 19, 1947, he returned via (Khwakurk and the Barazkara Plain) through the lands of northern Kurdistan to the Shirwan and Mazuri regions.
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 and head 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 lies on the border between Iran and the Soviet Union.
After arriving 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 the Republic of Azerbaijan. On December 10, 1947, they were transferred to a camp on the Caspian Sea in Baku, the capital of the Republic of Azerbaijan. On December 23, they received military uniforms and underwent eight hours of daily military training under the supervision of officers from the Republic of Azerbaijan. At the same time, they received four hours of daily Kurdish language lessons from some of their more educated comrades.
After Jafar Bakirov's mistreatment of his comrades, Barzani decided to move his military assembly from 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 comrades were distributed in groups by train to cooperative villages in the Soviet Union and worked on kolkhoz farms (land that people rented from the government and then paid a share of to the government).
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.
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