Politician Rashid Arif Abdulrahman Osman, also known as Rashid Atroshi, joined the ranks in Kurdistan Democratic Party In 1961 he joined the ranks of the Peshmerga forces Seventh CongressIn 1970, he was elected head of the Monitoring and Follow-up Committee Eighth CongressIn 1971, he was elected as a reserve member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). Ninth CongressHe was appointed governor of Kirkuk in 1991. He died on March 16, 2015 due to illness.

Biography

Rashid Arif Abdulrahman Osman was born in 1940 in Duhok. He graduated from secondary school in 1957 and was employed as a teacher in 1960 in the town of Sinjar in Mosul province He was removed, imprisoned and tortured for four months, then deported to Diwaniya in central Iraq. He was released in He died on March 16, 2015 in Sweden and was buried on March 23, 2015 in Duhok. He was fluent in Kurdish, Arabic, Persian and Swedish.

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Rashid Arif Abdulrahman Osman joined the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) in 1956 and the Peshmerga forces in 1961 The September RevolutionIn 1963, he became a member of the delegation Kurdistan Democratic Party was to negotiate with the Iraqi government.

On July 15, 1964, he was elected head of the Mosul Regional Committee of the First Branch Committee and a year later he was promoted to the rank of Branch Committee Administrator. In 1966 he was represented Seventh Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party He was elected head of the monitoring and follow-up committee in Ghala village of Erbil province. In the same year, he became head of the third branch committee. In 1970 and in Eighth CongressHe was elected as a reserve member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP). On April 3, 1971, he was appointed deputy governor of Erbil. On May 11, 1971, he was removed from this post by order of the Revolutionary Leadership Council.

On May 17, 1972, he was attempted to be assassinated by the Iraqi government by planting three bombs in the headquarters of the third branch committee in Kirkuk The attempt was foiled by the arrest of the mercenary.

In 1973, he was appointed head of the organization department of the Political Bureau, and in 1974, he was appointed head of the seventh branch committee Kurdistan Democratic Party. . . . After the collapse The September Revolution He was displaced to Iran in 1975 and settled in Karaj. In mid-1977, under the supervision of Idris Barzani (1944-1987) Participated in a large meeting in Karaj, in order to assist the interim leadership of the Kurdistan Democratic Party and supervise 150,000 refugees from South Kurdistan in Iran.

In 1979 and in Ninth Congress of the PartyHe was elected a member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP). He participated in the Kurdistan Uprising in South Kurdistan and on March 20, 1991 he participated in the liberation of Kirkuk with the Kurdistan Front forces. On March 24, 1991, he was appointed governor of Kirkuk by the Kurdistan Front.

On August 16, 1996, he was arrested The September Revolution and The May Revolution and the South Kurdistan uprising, on the golden jubilee of the PKK by the president Massoud BarzanHe was awarded the Immortal Barzani Medal. Representative 12th Congress (1999) and Thirteenth Congress (2010) He was a member of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP).

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