Hashim Elias Silo, known as Mahmud Ezidi, was born in 1944 in the Ba'adre sub-district. After the collapse of the Aylul Revolution, he became a refugee in Iran with his family. After a few months, he sent his family, his brother Hussein, and his children back to Iraq, meaning they surrendered to the Iraqi regime. On the night of 18 to 19 August 1979, in the village of Radnia at the foot of Gara, he was martyred by a treacherous hand.
In 1985, during the Gulan Revolution, the Martyr's body was transferred to Deregeli Kani Mazi in the Barwari region. On 18 August 2001, it was transferred to Lalish with a military ceremony in the presence of the representative of President Masoud Barzani. In 2011, at the Sheikhan intersection, the statue of the immortal Martyr Mahmud Ezidi was unveiled by the Ministry of Culture of the Kurdistan Regional Government.
Struggle Record
Martyr Hashim Elias Silo, known as Mahmud Ezidi, after a difficult life in the Iraqi army and good training in military duty, in the Year 1963, at the beginning of Aylul Revolution he joined the ranks of the Kurdistan Democratic Party and became a Peshmerga and continued the struggle until 1975. Martyr Mahmud had several meetings and decided to cross the border between Iran, Iraq, and Turkey with several friends towards Syria and participate in several training courses in Syria. At that same time, instability arose for Martyr Mahmud and his friends, and they were forced to cross into Turkey and went into the villages of Guyi and Qushuria.
Martyr Mahmud, along with Adil Mizuri and several friends, crossed into South Kurdistan, and on the banks of the Khabur in Komate, at a large meeting with the participation of Sami Abdulrahman and Jawhar Namiq and Zaim Ali and Karim Shingali, they carried the message of the revolution and the decision of the Provisional Leadership and several leaflets, and on 3 March 1976, they began organizational work and met several Peshmerga of Aylul, and he delivered Barzani's message to them and established several secret organizations.
The first bullet of the progressive Gulan Revolution in the region was fired by the Martyr Commander and several of his fellow fighters. They targeted the military headquarters of the Ba'athist regime, and on that very day, the Gulan Revolution was ignited. After their network was exposed due to extensive activities, many of their friends reached the ranks of the revolution and became Peshmerga and continued, and they carried out their military activities, targeting the enemy's outposts one after another..
Martyr Commander Mahmud Ezidi participated in many battles, epics, and activities and had a prominent role in the battle of Pelkife, where he was wounded twice, the battle of Atrosh, Shamkani, Gali Kurtki, Berkajki, Alqosh, Sarsinki, Gali Kurtki (where he was wounded in this battle), the epic of Sarsinki, the epic of Cheman, Dostaka and Kani, Nisre, Bani, Derelush, Dekan, Blan, the battle of Matini and Gara, etc...
Several artists and poets have written poems and spoken about the heroism and legend of the immortal Martyr Mahmud Ezidi, such as Qadir Qachakh, Jafar Emniki, Mahmud, Muayad Tayeb, Abdulrahman Mizuri, Qadir Hassan Mahsuze and Majid Hasso, Arif Hito, Hoshyar Rikani, Hussein Ba'adri, Zaro Dohuki, Habib Kalesh. It is worth mentioning that Qadir Hassan and Dr. Saeed Khudida have published a book on the life of Martyr Mahmud Ezidi..
Source:- Archive of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Encyclopedia Board.