Biography

Hamo Sleman Rashid was born in the year 1917 in the village of Hizan, affiliated with the Barzan sub-district in the Mergasor district of Erbil province. He married twice; his first wife was named Khanzad, and his second wife was from Eastern Kurdistan. He passed away in the year 1968 in Darya Hore and was buried in the village of Shifke.

Struggle Record

In the year 1932, he joined the ranks of the First Barzan Revolution and participated in the battles. In the year 1943, he joined the ranks of the Second Barzan Revolution and participated in the battles. On the 19 of August 1945, by order of the Iraqi military revolutionary court, all his movable and immovable property and assets were seized. After the collapse of the Second Barzan Revolution, on the 11 of October 1945, he headed to Eastern Kurdistan.

 On the 31 of March 1946, he was a Peshmerga in the Barzan force affiliated with the army of the Democratic Republic and participated in the battles of the Saqqez front. On the 19 of April 1947, he decided that under the command of General Mustafa Barzani he would continue the resistance. On the 23 of May of the same year, right at the beginning of the journey toward the Soviet Union in the village of Dre, he was severely wounded due to the bombing by the Iraqi Air Force planes. Upon the request of Mullah Mustafa Barzani he was handed over to the village mukhtar to be transferred to Shirwan and handed back to the government. For this purpose, he gave three weapons to the village mukhtar, but the village mukhtar handed the aforementioned person over to the Republic of Turkey. He was imprisoned for six years and six months, then released and returned to the village of Barzan. There, the Jash (collaborators) handed the aforementioned person over to the Iraqi regime, and he was imprisoned in Kirkuk for three years. He was released in the year 1958. In the year 1961, he participated in the Aylul Revolution and participated in the battles.

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