Martyr Selam Arif Ebdulla Mihemed was born in 1964 in the village of Girde Naze in the Sharazur plain, which is part of the Khurmal sub-district. He was a villager and engaged in farming. He was a middle school student and in 1981 he made contact with the secret wing of Martyr Ekrem Heme Eli, which was part of the secret organizations of the Halabja District Committee of the Fourth Branch of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, at which time Martyr Ekrem Heme Eli was a cadre of the Halabja District Committee organization.
Martyr Selam Arif took up arms in 1981 and became a Peshmerga in the Balanteran organization under the responsibility of Mam Wali Haci Arif, which was part of the Halabja District Committee. On October 1, 1983, Selam Arif and Mam Wali Haci Arif went into the city of Said Sadiq to carry out a partisan operation. On the way back, at the Said Sadiq checkpoint, they fell into a military ambush by the Ba'ath regime and the Jash, and they faced an enemy force and resisted for nearly six hours. However, due to the arrival of reinforcements of Jash and Ba'ath soldiers, Selam Arif was martyred in the result, and Mam Wali Haci Arif escaped the ambush wounded.
1. Archive of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Encyclopedia