Biography

Mullah Salih was born in 1927 in Shanader village of Goratu district of Mergasur district of Erbil province. He died on October 14, 2013.

The struggle

He joined the ranks of the Second Barzan Revolution in 1945. On August 19, 1945, the Iraqi Military Customary Court ordered the confiscation of all his property. On September 5, he participated in the arrest of the Maidan Moriki police station. On October 11, 1945, after the collapse of the Second Barzan Revolution, he moved to East Kurdistan and settled in Pasoy village. 

On March 31, 1946, he joined the Barzani forces of the Kurdistan Democratic Republic Army in Mahabad.

He was one of the Peshmergas who returned to Sherwan and Mazuri in North Kurdistan 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 15, 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 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 General Mustafa Barzani, on February 25, 1959, he and his comrades were granted a general amnesty under Articles 3 and 7, paragraphs (a) of Article 10 and Article 11. 

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.  

 In 1959 he was with Mala Mustafa Barzani in Baghdad. He participated in the September Revolution. In 1962 he participated in the capture of Rayat police station. In 1963 he participated in the battles of Sarê Akre In 1975, after the collapse of the September Revolution, he fled to Iran and settled in Shino. He returned to Erbil after taking advantage of the general amnesty. In 1985, he returned to Iran as a refugee for the second time.

 He participated in the May Revolution in 1988 and participated in several battles. In 1991 he returned to Kurdistan with Nechirvan Barzani and participated in the uprising in Sulaimani and Kirkuk. In 1995 he was transferred to the army Private One, retired in On December 16, 2010, at the 13th Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), he was honored by the President for his struggle and resistance in the Second Barzan Revolution, the Republic of Mahabad, the Path to the Soviet Union, the September Revolution, the May Revolution and the Uprising Massoud Barzani has been awarded the Immortal Barzani Medal. 

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