Biography

He was born in 1925 in Argushi village of Sherwan Mazen district of Mergasur district of Erbil province. He emigrated to Turkey with his family on June 21, 1932. He was married before going to the Soviet Union His family was Gulbayaz Aziz Hamid and they had a son named Mosleh Salim (1948).

 Salim Rashid Salim studied in the Soviet Union and received an agricultural technical certificate. In 1959, he was employed as an artistic observer in the Sulaimani Agricultural Office. He was fluent in Kurdish, Turkish and Russian He died in 1967 in Argosh village and was buried there.

The struggle

He joined the ranks of the Second Barzan Revolution in 1943. On October 12, 1943, he participated in the capture of the police station of Khairzoki captured in the untransmitted.

 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 was a Peshmerga 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 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). He worked in the Show area near Moscow. 

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 RevolutionIn 1961, he participated in the Battle of Perse and the same year he participated in the Battle of Barzan. 

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