Salim Darbas, known as (Sado Kurki), was born in 1937 in the village of Kurka in the Guli area in the city of Zakho, affiliated with Duhok Governorate. He left his wife and children in 1975 after the setback of Aylul Revolution and crossed the border between southern and northern Kurdistan, heading to the village of Anbi in Urmia, and from there to Rajan and Ziwe. He was transferred from there to Bandar Abbas and Bandar Lengeh. As for his wife and children, they were deported to the city of Nasiriyah in southern Iraq. He returned to southern Kurdistan in 1991 and settled in the city of Zakho. He was diagnosed with cancer in 1997 and was sent to Turkey, Syria, Austria, and Germany to receive treatment. He died in the city of Zakho on 25 May 2012.
In 1958, he joined the ranks of Kurdistan Democratic Party in Bativa and was appointed responsible for the cell. In 1961, he joined the ranks of the Peshmerga forces of the Aylul Revolution in the Duhok forces, became responsible for the administration of the forces in 1962, participated in several courses for the use of weapons between the years (1961-1963), and in 1970 he was appointed as a company commander and border guard in Duhok. In 1974, after the Iraqi regime began the war against the Peshmerga forces of the Aylul Revolution, he returned to the Duhok forces and participated in the battles of the Duhok area.
He headed to the city of Karaj in 1976, and returned to southern Kurdistan in 1977, and from there to northern Kurdistan and the districts of Cizre, Uludere, and Hadris. That area was a center for the mobile Peshmerga forces of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, and he continued his struggle with the strike forces of the mobile detachments.
In 1979, he participated in the Ninth Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party as a member of the congress, and President Masoud Barzani gifted him a Kalashnikov rifle. After the end of the congress, he returned to Komate, where the headquarters of the First Branch was located. In 1980, he was appointed responsible for the guards of the Zakho Regional Committee, and in 1981 he assumed the responsibility of Deputy Head of the Zakho Organization. In 1983, he was appointed head of the Sinjar Organization in Zakho, and in 1987 he was a member of the Regional Committee and responsible for the military section in the Zakho Regional Committee.
In 1988, after the infamous Anfal campaign and the chemical attack on Badinan by the Ba'athist regime, Sado Kurki moved to northern Kurdistan and was transferred from there to a refugee camp in Amed, where he took over the tasks of the Refugee Committee.
In 1991, after his return to the city of Zakho, he assumed the responsibility of the Darkar Regional Committee in Zakho. In 1992, he was appointed Deputy Commander of the Third Duhok Army, and in 1994 he was appointed Commander of the Sixth Battalion in the First Zakho Army. In 1995, he assumed the position of Commander of the 17th Forces of the First Zakho Army.
Sado Kurki participated in several battles during his struggle in the ranks of the Peshmerga, including the battle of the Jasan headquarters in the village of Badrak in the Jumbur area in Mosul in 1962, the battle of Bani Drik in the Doski area, the battle of Duhok, the battle of Wadi Zawita, and in 1963 in the battle of Mount Matin, and the battle of Mount Berz and Bitas, and in 1982 in the battle of the Zambil Frosh area in the Batova area, and in 1984 in the battle of the Zakho area, and in 1987 in the battle of Kani Masi, in 1994 in the battle of Shaqlawa, and in 1995 in the village of Babir, where he was wounded.
He was awarded the Barzani Medal by President Masoud Barzani on 16 August 1996 during the celebration of the Golden Jubilee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.
Source:1- Archive of the Encyclopedia Authority of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.