Biography

Salih Abdulkhaliq Rashid, known as Sayid Salih Barwari, was born in 1931 in the village of Cham Sayida in Barwari Bala, Duhok Governorate. In 1975, after the collapse of the Aylul Revolution he became a refugee in the Kingdom of Iran. He passed away on March 15, 1992, and was laid to rest in the Shakhke cemetery in the city of Duhok.

Struggle Record

 Sayid Salih Barwari served in the Iraqi army with the rank of corporal in 1959. He joined the ranks of the Peshmerga forces in the Year 1962, and in 1963 he was appointed commander of the artillery battalion of the 1st Branch of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, and he was a graduate of a command and battalion command course in the winter of 1967 outside the country. In 1970, he became a member of the Amedi district committee affiliated with the 1st Branch committee.

 In 1974, he was an instructor for the artillery training course of the Aylul Revolution , and in 1974 he was appointed commander of the support (Isnad) force. In 1975, after the collapse of the Aylul Revolution, he became a refugee in the country of Iran. In 1976, he joined the ranks of the Peshmerga forces of the Provisional Leadership of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, and in 1976, during the era of the Provisional Leadership of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, he was appointed head of the Amedi district committee affiliated with the 1st Branch committee. In the Year 1979, he was a representative at the 9th Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party  in the village of Rajan in Eastern Kurdistan. In 1979, he was appointed as an administrator of the 1st Branch committee. In 1980, he was appointed as a branch member of the 1st Branch committee in the twelfth staff during the period of responsibility of Dr. Jirjis Hassan Abdullah, and he was also the head of the Amedi district committee.

 In 1980, he participated in the Battle of Balmbazi in the border area of Duhok Governorate jointly with the forces of the Iraqi Communist Party, and he was wounded by the shelling of the Iraqi army forces. In 1980, he participated in the Battle of Bikova against the Iraqi army forces in the border area of Duhok Governorate jointly with the forces of the Iraqi Communist Party, and he was wounded by the shelling of the Iraqi army. In 1983, he was appointed as the military head of the 1st Branch committee. In the Year 1985, in the thirteenth staff during the period of responsibility of Najmadin Said Ali (1941–2018), known as Najmadin Yusifi , he was appointed as an administrator of the 1st Branch committee. At the end of the Year 1987, he was appointed as an administrator of the 4th Branch committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, and in 1988 he participated in the Khwakurk epic against the Iraqi army forces and the pro-government tribal forces in the border area of Erbil Governorate and was wounded. In 1989, he was elected by the congress representatives as an alternate member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (10th Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party ), and in 1991, in the sixteenth staff during the period of responsibility of Fazel Mirani, he was appointed for the second time as an administrator of the 1st Branch committee. In 1991, during the uprising in Southern Kurdistan, he was appointed as the military commander of the 1st Branch committee. In 1993, by the decisions of the 11th Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party  —the unified party—he was designated as an immortal martyr.

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  12. Struggling Comrade Sayid Salih Passes Away, Khabat Newspaper, organ of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, No. 618, March 1992 AD, pp. 1–2.