Biography

  Haidar Muhammad Amin, was born in 1927 in the city of Erbil. In 1946, he took his final high school exams in prison. In 1948, he was accepted into the English Department of the College of Education in Baghdad, and in 1953, he received his bachelor's degree from the College of Education in Baghdad in the English Language Department. In 1953, due to his Kurdish nationalist struggle, he was denied the right to be appointed [to a government position], and to earn a living, he worked at a private company in the city of Baghdad. In 1957, he was appointed as a teacher at the Hilla Secondary School. In 1958, after the end of the Iraqi monarchical regime, he was transferred to the Erbil City Education Department and was engaged in teaching work. In 1958, he was an English teacher at the Erbil Primary Teachers' Institute.

On 16 January 1960, he passed away due to heart failure in the city of Erbil. On 22 January 1960, the newspaper Khabat, the organ of the Kurdistan Democratic Party , published the news of his passing. The Secretary of the Kurdistan Democratic Party and the Erbil branch of the Kurdistan Teachers' Union offered their condolences to his family. He was proficient in the Kurdish, Arabic, and English languages.

 Struggle Record

In 1942, he participated in the demonstration in front of the Erbil Governorate building for the purpose of releasing the lawyer Awni Yousef Ahmad (1908–1988) and Dr. Jaafar Muhammad Karim (1910–2000), known as Dr. Jaafar Fayli, and Hassan Taha Abdulaziz (1915–1999), known as Hassan Katani, who had been imprisoned by the Governor of Erbil due to their Kurdish nationalist struggle. In 1946, he joined the ranks of the Party. In 1948, he was imprisoned and took his final high school exams in prison and passed. In 1948, he was a representative at the Congress of the General Union of Students of Iraq (Congress of Lions). In 1948, he was a member of the leadership of the General Union of Students of Iraq (Congress of Lions). In 1949, he was imprisoned for political activity. In 1953, he was among the founding members of the Kurdistan Students Union. In 1953, he was a member of the preparatory committee for the first Congress of the Kurdistan Students Union. In 1953, at the first Congress of the Kurdistan Students Union, he was elected as a member of the Executive Committee and, after a short time, was appointed as Secretary of the Kurdistan Students Union. In 1953, he was a founding member and a member of the leadership of the Kurdistan Democratic Youth Union. In 1959, he was made the head of the Erbil regional committee, affiliated with the Second Branch Committee of the United Kurdistan Democratic Party.

In 1959, he was a member of the preparatory committee for the Fourth Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party – Iraq. In 1959, he was a representative at the Fourth Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party  – Iraq in the city of Baghdad. On 10 December 1959, as a representative of the Kurdistan Democratic Party – Iraq, at the headquarters of the Khabat newspaper in the city of Erbil, on the occasion of the recovery and discharge from the hospital of Brigadier General Abdul Karim Qasim (1914–1963), who had survived an assassination attempt by the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party, he delivered a speech to the masses. From 15 to 17 August 1960, he was the representative of Erbil Governorate at the second Congress of the Kurdistan Teachers' Union (Second Shaqlawa Congress). In 1960, he was elected by the Congress representatives as a reserve member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party ( Fifth Congress ). In 1960, he was the Secretary of the Erbil branch of the Kurdistan Teachers' Union.

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