Biography

Salim Khan Maran Omar was born in 1920 in the village of Bedud in the district of Piran in the district of Mergasur in Erbil province In 1956, he married Habiba Mahmoud Ahmed. They had two daughters, Shaze Salim Khan and Fatma Salim Khan. Salim Khan was fluent in Kurdish and Russian. He died in 1991 in Shino and was buried there.

The struggle

On October 11, 1945, after the collapse of the Second Barzan Revolution, he moved to East Kurdistan with his family. On March 31, 1946, he joined the Barzani Forces of the Kurdistan Democratic Republic Army as a Peshmerga. After the collapse of the Kurdistan Democratic Republic on March 19, 1947, he participated in the battle of Shino and Naghdeh (East Kurdistan). He was one of the Peshmergas who returned to Sherwan and Mazuri on April 19, 1947 via Khawkurk and Dashti Barazgar.

After their return, Genl Mustafa Barzani On May 6, 1947, he held a meeting with his comrades in Argosh village and instructed them to stay or go to the Soviet Union. On May 23, 1947, he accompanied General Mustafa Barzani to the Soviet Union in the Battle of Qtur He participated in the Battle of Mako Bridge and crossed the Aras River on June 18, 1947, which is located on the border between Iran and the Soviet Union

After arriving in the Soviet Union, on June 19, 1947, he and all his comrades were detained in Nakhchevan, Azerbaijan, for forty days in an open community surrounded by barbed wire by a group of soldiers They were guarded and treated like prisoners of war in terms of food, clothing and transportation. They were later divided into Aghdam, Lachin, Ayulakh and Kalbajar regions of Azerbaijan by the decision of the Soviet government. On December 10, 1947, they were transferred to a military base on the Caspian Sea in Baku, the capital of the Republic of Azerbaijan They have received military training. At the same time, they were taught Kurdish for four hours a day by some of their educated comrades.

After Jafar Bakirov's mistreatment of Barzani's comrades, it was decided to move his military camp from Azerbaijan to Chirchuk community near Tashkent, capital of Uzbekistan, where they continued their military training. 

In March 1949, he and his comrades were distributed by train to the villages of the Soviet Union and worked on the farms of the kolkhozes (land that people rented from the government and then paid back to the government). 

After much effort and sending several letters by General Barzani to Stalin, Stalin finally received a letter in which Barzani talked about the suffering of his comrades and he immediately decided to form a committee to investigate the situation of Barzani's comrades In November 1951, he moved to Vrevisky, Soviet Union.

After the July 14, 1958 revolution in Iraq and the return of the general Mustafa BarzaniOn February 25, 1959, he and his comrades were granted a general amnesty under Articles 3 and 7, paragraph (a) of Article 10 and Article 11 of the 1959 Amended Law. 

In 1958, the Iraqi Republic was established under the leadership of Abdulkarim Qasim. He returned to Kurdistan on April 16, 1959 with his comrades on the ship Georgia via the port of Basra in the south of the Iraqi Republic Resides, 1963 Participation The September RevolutionHe was a soldier and participated in the fighting in 1975 after the NSK The September Revolution He moved to the Kingdom of Iran as a refugee and settled in Shino with his two sons The May Revolutionhas done

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