Biography

Amir Az Aziz Mahmud was born in 1937 in Makhmur district. His level of education was primary, and he was martyred together with a son named Sardar Amir. His wife's name is Mayas Hamada and his sons' names are Salar, Farhad, Sardar and his daughters are Chinar, Bekhal, Mahabad.

Struggle Record

In 1958, a brother of his named Mela Gharib formed an independent force from their relatives and close people, numbering 17 people, and they went to welcome the return of President Mustafa Barzani to Kurdistan. Immediately after that, in January 1960, they went to Qarachogh Mountain. Due to their activity, in 1966 he became the commander of the Barzani Headquarters detachment and carried out activities in the cities of Baghdad, Mosul, Kirkuk, Erbil, Duhok and several other cities.

 In 1969, he received news that a Ba'ath regime checkpoint on the Kirkuk road was heavily obstructing the movement of the Peshmerga Forces, he went with several Peshmerga and destroyed the checkpoint, but the Jash affiliated with the Ba'ath regime attacked them from behind and forced them to retreat and they came back into the Sheikhalla cemetery of Erbil, they were surrounded, but he heroically saved himself and a comrade and they went into the houses in the market, later through a person he asked someone for help with ammunition and to escape, but instead of helping, he agreed with the governor of Erbil and took them to the Shaqlawa checkpoint and handed them over there. He was arrested and remained in prison until the amnesty of the March 11 Manifesto, but he was not released in the general amnesty, until later his brother Mela Gharib went to His Excellency Barzani and told him that Kako had not been released, and he sent a special letter to the Vice President of the Republic of Iraq through the delegation of negotiators who were going to Baghdad. Later, he was released by the order of the Vice President.

After his release and return, he promised to take revenge for that act on Samko, until one month after his release, His Excellency President Mustafa Barzani sent him a letter through Franso Hariri and in the letter he says (Kako, my son, I have forgiven all the Jash and traitors, can you not forgive one person) at the same time Kako Franso says Samko is in my car and is at your door, whatever you do to him is your right, in this way Kako forgives Samko and after two days he goes to serve Barzani in Galala and resumes his work at the Barzani Headquarters, until in 1974 he became a refugee in the Country of Iran.

At the beginning of January 1977, Kako Idris Barzani sent him a letter and instructed him to prepare anyone who wants to become a Peshmerga and return to the border, so Kako set up a secret headquarters in Tehran and for anyone who wants to return, he prepares equipment for them, which consists of a backpack, canteen, dagger, car ticket, secret password and any other request they might have, in this way they were sent from Tehran to Rezayeh and from there to the border.

 This process continued until 1979, after the coup of the Islamic Revolution, he returned to the Kurdish cities of Eastern Kurdistan and worked for the organization of the 9th Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party they do.

In 1981, he returned to the border and turned back to the mountains of Kurdistan. In 1982, his brother Mela Gharib, who was a force commander, passed away and Kako was made force commander in his place. In 1983, he took his force and went to the village of Lewzhe, he saw that it had an important position on the heights of Qandil Mountain and behind the forces of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, he deemed it necessary to go there, on August 13, 1983, a large enemy force, with the guidance of the people of the region, came to their headquarters and they encountered a heavy hand-to-hand fight, as his force consisted of 20 Peshmerga of his force and 8 Peshmerga of the Zakho branch, after several hours of fighting Kako was martyred and it had a great impact on his entire force and his son Sardar did not stop until he was martyred next to his father, Martyr Kako, later each of Kamal, Jamal, Qadir, Mamand were martyred. Later, the 8-person force of the Zakho branch fell into an enemy ambush and all 8 people were executed by firing squad while alive.

The enemy tied the body of Martyr Kako with his own belt to a tree and hung it from a high ravine, at that time some of his acquaintances went and buried his body in that same place and in 1993 a son of his named Salar went and brought back his body and the bodies of the other martyred Peshmerga. 

Source:

Archive of the Encyclopedia Board of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.