Selim Ehmed Selim Reşo was born in 1914 in the village of Çiye in the Nêrwe and Rêkan area of ​​the Amêdî district of the Duhok province.

He participated in the second Barzan revolution in 1945. In 1961, with the beginning of the September revolution, he contacted the Peshmerga forces of the revolution and participated in the Battle of Zawita Valley and the Battle of Bahdinan in 1961-1962 to expel the Iraqi army and the forces in the region. His brother Sinar Ahmadi was martyred in 1961.

In 1962, he joined Mullah Mustafa Barzani in the Soran district and the Balek region. He participated in the battles of the Sufis under Sheikh Rashid Lolan and the Battle of Safin. In 1965, he participated in the Battle of Qardax, the Battle of Piremegrun, the Battle of Serê Spilk, the Battle of Kêvaresh, the Battle of Dere in the Amêdi area, the Battle of Geliyê Ali Beg in the Diyana district and the Doski area. In 1975, after the defeat of the September Revolution, he emigrated to Iran and settled in the city of Nakheda in Eastern Kurdistan, where he was transferred with his family to the city of Sabzevar in the province of Khorasan and finally to the city of Sharudi in the province of Simien.

In 1977, he participated in the May Revolution, and in the same year, one of his sons, Haji Selim, was martyred. In 1982, under the leadership of Idris Barzani, he returned to the Black Valley, Bradost Mountain, and the Xwakurk district with two sons and a nephew and a number of other peshmerga fighters, and attacked the enemy as a mobile detachment. In 1991, he returned to Southern Kurdistan and participated in the uprising of the Kurdistan people against the institutions and organizations of the Iraqi government.

On August 16, 1996, on the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, he was awarded the Barzani Medal of Honor by President Masoud Barzani for his services to Kurds, Kurdistan, and the Barzani method. He passed away on November 21, 2005 due to illness.

Source:

1. Archives of the Encyclopedia Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.