Biography

Salim Rashid Salam was born in 1918 in Babseva village, Barzan district, Mergasur district, Erbil province. He was married before going to the Soviet Union. His family name was Parin Isa Goran. They had a son named Mustafa Salim (1944) who went missing on July 31, 1983 during the Anfal operation of the Barzanis by the Iraqi government in Qushtapa community. 

Salim Rashid studied in the Soviet Union and received a bachelor's degree in agriculture. He married Zahra in the Soviet Union and after returning to Iraq in 1959, he was employed in the Sulaimani Agricultural Office and later transferred to the Barzan Agricultural Office.

 In 1980 he was transferred to Qushtapa community, then re-employed as an employee in Erbil Agriculture Office. He was fluent in Kurdish, Arabic and Russian. He died on October 28, 

The struggle

Salim Rashid Salam joined the ranks of the Second Barzan Revolution in 1943. He participated in the capture of the police stations of Sinjar, Bedarun, Kani Rash and Ble In October 1943, he participated in the capture of Kherzok police station, in November 10, 1943, he participated in the capture of Mazne police station and in August 8, 1945, he participated in the capture of Mergasuri police station. On August 19, 1945, all his property was confiscated by order of the Iraqi Military Customary Court. 

On October 11, 1945, after the collapse of the Second Barzan Revolution, he moved to East Kurdistan. On March 31, 1946, he joined the Barzani forces of the Kurdistan Democratic Republic Army in Mahabad He served in East Kurdistan and was disabled in this war.

 After the collapse of the Kurdistan Democratic Republic on March 19, 1947, he participated in the battles of Naghdeh and Shino.

After their return, Genl Mustafa Barzani On May 6, 1947, he held a meeting with his comrades in the village of Argosh and instructed them to stay or go to the Soviet Union Mustafa Barzani He participated in the Battle of Qtur People and the Battle of Mako Bridge. After much hardship and fatigue, he 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 been militarized. 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 November 1951 Moves 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. On April 16, 1959, he returned to Kurdistan with his comrades on the ship Georgia via the port of Basra in the south of the Iraqi Republic. 

 1961 Participation The September RevolutionHe participated in the battles of Ma'id, Nahle, Mullah, Shindr, Sar-e-Pirs and Daret-e-Qaraja between Ble and Rezan in 1975 after Nskoy The September Revolution He was transferred to southern Iraq by the Iraqi government and settled in Shafi'a, Diwaniya province. 

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