Biography

Salim Shekhomar Ahmad was born in 1888 in Bedud village of Piran district of Mergasur district of Erbil province. After going to the Soviet Union, he married there and had a daughter named Ludmila He died in 1954 in Uzbekistan and was buried there.

The struggle

He joined the ranks of the First Barzan Revolution in 1931. On April 3, 1932, he participated in the Battle of Dulavazhi. On June 21, 1932, he and his family were displaced to Turkey He joined the ranks of the Second Barzan Revolution and participated in the battles. 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 served as a Peshmerga in the Barzani forces of the Kurdistan Democratic Republic Army. He participated in the battles of Salih Awa, Serwe and Margawari in East Kurdistan On 25 March 1947, he participated in the battle of Havres and Halaji.

He was one of the Peshmergas who returned to Sherwan and Mazuri on April 19, 1947 via Khawkurk and Dashti Barazgar.

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

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