Biography

Shekhomar Ahmad Had was born in the Year 1918 in the village of Sardari, Mergasor District, Erbil Governorate. He passed away in the Year 1969 and was buried in his homeland.

Struggle Record

On 22 May 1947, he accompanied General Mustafa Barzani towards the Soviet Union and participated in the Battle of Qotur and the Battle of Maku Bridge, and after much hardship and fatigue, on 18 June 1947, he crossed the Aras River, which is located on the border between Iran and the Soviet Union, into the Soviet Union.

After their arrival in the Soviet Union, on 19 June 1947, together with all his companions, he was placed in the city of Nakhchivan in the Republic of Azerbaijan for forty days in an open-air compound surrounded by barbed wire, and they were guarded by a group of soldiers and were treated like prisoners of war in terms of food, clothing, and movement. Later, by the decision of the Soviet government, they were distributed among the regions of Aghdam, Lachin, Ayulakh, and Kalbajar in the Republic of Azerbaijan. On 10 December 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 daily, they were taught lessons in learning the Kurdish language by some of their companions who were literate.

After the mistreatment of Barzani's companions by Jafar Baghirov, it was decided to move the military camp on 29 August 1948 from the Republic of Azerbaijan to the Charchuk compound near Tashkent, the capital of the Republic of Uzbekistan, where they continued their military training. 

In March 1949, together 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 returned the government's share). 

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

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

In the Year 1961, he joined the Peshmerga Forces of the Aylul Revolution and participated in its battles, passed away in the Year 1969 and was buried in his homeland.

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