Biography

Born in 1920 in the village of Vazhi, affiliated with the Piran sub-district in the Mergasor district of Erbil province. On June 21, 1932, he migrated with his family to the Republic of Turkey. He studied in the Soviet Union and received an institute degree in the surveying department. After returning from the Soviet Union, Salih Ahmed was appointed as an employee in the Erbil Agriculture Department in 1959. In 1975, after the collapse of the Aylul Revolution , he resided in his homeland. In 1976, he was re-appointed as an employee in the Erbil Agriculture Department, and later he was transferred to the Harir and Rawanduz departments. In 1977, he was displaced by the government of Iraq to the Harir complex. He knew both the Kurdish and Russian languages.

Struggle Record

In 1943, he joined the ranks of the Second Barzan Revolution and participated in the battle of Kherazok on October 12. On August 19, 1945, by order of the Iraqi military field court, all his movable and immovable property was seized. On September 5, 1945, he participated in the capture of the Maydan Morik police station.

 After the fall of the Republic of Kurdistan in Mahabad and the return of Barzani from Eastern Kurdistan to Southern Kurdistan, he participated in the battle of Naghadeh and the battle of Oshnavieh in Eastern Kurdistan. He was also among the Peshmerga who returned to the Shirwan and Mazuri region on April 19, 1947, through the Khwakurk and Bazargir plain via the territory of Northern Kurdistan.

After their return, General Mustafa Barzani held a meeting with his companions on May 15, 1947, in the village of Argosh and gave them the choice to stay or go to the Soviet Union. There, all his companions decided to continue and go to the Soviet Union. On May 23, 1947, he accompanied General Mustafa Barzani towards the Soviet Union and participated in the battle of the Qotur valley and the battle of the Maku bridge. After much hardship and fatigue, on June 18, 1947, he crossed the Aras River, which is located on the border between Iran and the Soviet Union, into the Soviet Union.

After arriving in the Soviet Union, on June 19, 1947, he and all his companions were placed in the city of Nakhchivan in the Republic of Azerbaijan for forty days in an open-air complex surrounded by barbed wire. They were guarded by a group of soldiers and were treated as prisoners of war in terms of food, clothing, and movement. Later, by decision of the Soviet government, they were distributed among the regions of Aghdam, Lachin, Ayulakh, and Kalbajar in the Republic of Azerbaijan. On December 10, 1947, they were transferred to a military camp on the Caspian Sea in Baku, the capital of the Republic of Azerbaijan, and on the 23rd of the same month, they were given military uniforms and, under the supervision of the officers of the Republic of Azerbaijan, they were given eight hours of military training daily. At the same time, for four hours a day, they were taught Kurdish language lessons by some of their companions who were literate.

After the bad treatment of Jafar Bagirov towards Barzani's companions, it was decided to move the military camp on August 29, 1948, from the Republic of Azerbaijan to the Charchuk complex near Tashkent, the capital of the Republic of Uzbekistan, and they continued their military training there. 

In March 1949, along with his companions, they were distributed in groups and squads by train among the collective villages of the Soviet Union and worked in the Kolkhoz fields (lands that people rented from the government and later gave the government's share back). 

After much effort and sending several letters by General Barzani to Stalin, a letter finally reached Stalin in which Barzani described the hardships of his companions, and he immediately decided to form a committee to investigate the situation of Barzani's companions. Eventually, the committee's decision was that they should all be gathered in the city of Vrevsky, so he went to the city of Vrevsky in the Soviet Union in November 1951.

After the July 14, 1958 revolution in Iraq and the return of General Mustafa Barzani, on February 25, 1959, and according to both the third and seventh articles and paragraph (a) of the tenth article, and by implementing article (11) based on the amended Law No. 19 of 1959, he and his companions were covered by the general amnesty. 

In 1958, the Republic of Iraq was established under the presidency of Abdul Karim Qasim. On April 16, 1959, he and his companions returned to Kurdistan by the ship Grozia via the port of Basra in the south of the Republic of Iraq.  

 In 1961, he participated in the Aylul Revolution and participated in the battles. On July 31, 1983, during the Anfal operation of the Barzanis, he was disappeared by the Iraqi government in the Harir complex.

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