Biography

Muhammad Haji Mahmoud Muhammad, known as Hama Haji Mahmoud and Kaka Hama, was born in 1953 in the city of Halabja. In 1975, after the collapse of the September Revolution, he became a refugee in Iran. On August 18, 2004, he was appointed as a member of the Iraqi Interim National Council (Al-Majlis al-Watani al-Mu'aqqat al-'Iraqi). On June 4, 2005, he became a member of the Kurdistan National Council (second term) on the list of the Kurdistan Socialist Democratic Party. On May 7, 2006, he became a Minister of State (fifth cabinet). He is proficient in Kurdish, Persian, and Arabic languages.

Struggle Record

In 1968, he joined the ranks of the Party and was granted the honor of membership in 1970. In 1976, he joined the ranks of the (Marxist-Leninist) Association. On June 26, 1976, he joined the ranks of the Peshmerga forces. In November 1976, he participated in the Battle of Bani Bonok in Halabja. In 1977, he was a section commander in the Peshmerga forces of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan. On April 17, 1978, due to ideological incompatibility, he left the ranks of the (Marxist-Leninist) Association but remained within the ranks of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan as a Peshmerga. In June 1980, he was the official in charge of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan forces in the Khoshnaweti region. On September 16, 1980, he commanded the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan forces in the Battle of Tapa Safa in Halabja.

 On December 12, 1980, he joined the ranks of the Kurdistan United Socialist Party. On January 3, 1981, in the village of Qawila in Halabja, he was able to capture Nawshirwan Mustafa, the secretary of the Toilers Association. In 1981, he became a reserve member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Socialist Party at the First Congress. On April 17, 1981, he was one of the commanders of the Battle of Alan and Hasil in Halabja against the attacking forces of the Iraqi army. In August 1981, he was made a member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Socialist Party and the official in charge of the Sulaymaniyah branch of that party. In the summer of 1982, he participated in the liberation of the Halabja-Sayyid Sadiq road. On August 2, 1983, as commander of the Kurdistan Socialist Party forces, he participated in the Battle of Shakrali-Khakokhol in Halabja alongside the forces of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan. In 1986, as the Sharazur commander of the Kurdistan Socialist Party, he signed a peace agreement with the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan. In April 1986, he was the reason for peace between the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan and the Kurdistan Socialist Party.

In the 1991 uprising in Southern Kurdistan, he participated in the liberation of Sharazur, Sulaymaniyah, Khanaqin, and Kirkuk. On March 19, representing the Kurdistan Socialist Party, he participated in the meeting of the Kurdistan Front for the purpose of determining the time for the Kurdistan National Council elections and the economic and security situation of Southern Kurdistan. At the beginning of 1992, he participated in the meeting of the Kurdistan Front for the purpose of establishing the High Committee for Supervising the Kurdistan National Council Elections. On April 7, 1992, representing the Kurdistan Socialist Party, he participated in the broad Pirman meeting of the Kurdistan Front for the purpose of preparations for the Kurdistan National Council election process. In 1992, he was a candidate on the Unity list for the Kurdistan National Council election process. In 1992, he was a member of the leadership of the Kurdistan Unity Party. On Thursday, August 20, 1992, in the city of Erbil, he participated in the first congress of the Kurdistan Unity Party. On Thursday, August 27, 1992, he was elected as a member of the Central Committee by the representatives of the first congress of the Kurdistan Unity Party. In 1992, he was a member of the military apparatus of the Kurdistan Unity Party.

In 1993, he was elected by the Congress representatives as a member of the Political Bureau of the Kurdistan Democratic Party - Unified Eleventh Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party but he remained in this position for a short time and separated from the Party. On Wednesday, October 6, 1993, at the Bashmakh border crossing on the border of Sulaymaniyah Governorate, as a member of the Political Bureau of the Kurdistan Democratic Party - Unified, he welcomed the convoy of President Mustafa Barzani (1903-1979) and Idris Barzani (1944-1987) who were heading from the Islamic Republic of Iran towards their final resting place in the village of Barzan, affiliated with Erbil Governorate. On April 20, 1983, he participated in the Battle of Kani Bardina. On November 15, 1994, he held the founding congress of the Kurdistan Socialist Democratic Party in the city of Erbil. On Saturday, March 18, 1995, in Pirman, he was welcomed by the President of the Kurdistan Democratic Party - Unified.

 In October 1999, he participated in the founding congress of the Association of Veteran Peshmerga of the Kurdistan Communist Party. In 2014, he was the official in charge of the Kirkuk axis against the ISIS forces. On Monday, January 21, 2019, he was welcomed by President Masoud Barzani. 

Among his works:

  1. Revolution and Peshmerga Life - An Experiment of Seven Years of Revolution 1976 - 1983 - 1991.

  2. Clarification in a Few Lines - 1993.

  3. Diary of a Peshmerga - Discusses the events of (20) years of the struggle of our people's new revolution 1976 - 1996 - Volume One - 1998.

  4. Diary of a Peshmerga - Discusses the events of (20) years of the struggle of our people's new revolution 1976 - 1996 - Volume Two - No Year.

  5. Diary of a Peshmerga - Discusses the events of (20) years of the struggle of our people's new revolution 1976 - 1996 - Volume Three - 2001.

  6. Diary of a Peshmerga 1976 - 1996 Discusses (20) years of the struggle and events of our people's new revolution - Volume Four - 2001.

Sources:

  1. Ahmed Banikhelani, My Memoirs, (Stockholm - 1997 AD), pp. 409 - 410, 532.

  2. Faiq Qadir Hama Salih, The Well of Struggle, (Tehran - Jangal Printing House - 2019), pp. 238 and 247, 249, 250.

  3. Suleiman Mustafa Hassan, The Kurds and the First Experience, (Erbil - Karo Printing House - 2017), pp. 28, 31, 33, 69, 75, 278.

  4. Ardeshir Pashang, The Kurds in the Midst of the Iran-Iraq War, (Tehran - Marz-o-Boom Publishing - 1394 AH), pp. 306, 329, 334.

  5. Bwar Nuredin, Kurds and Kurdistan: Bibliography and Index in Kurdish Books, Volume Two, Part One, (Tehran - Tehran Printing House - 2016), pp. 148, 183, 345, 464.

  6. The War on Iraq: Diaries - Documents - Reports 1990 - 2005, (Beirut - Center for Arab Unity Studies - 2007), pp. 524, 1159.

  7. Ahmed Sharif Lak, Analysis of Historical Events, Volume Two, (Erbil - Rojhalat Printing House - 2019), p. 68.

  8. Khalaf Ghafur, The Golden Vessel, Volume One, (Kirkuk - Kirkuk Cultural and Social Association - Karo Printing House - 2011), pp. 251 - 252, 255 256, 260 - 261, 263 - 265. 

  9. Rikar Ahmed, Unification and Dissolution, (Erbil - Bahest Printing House - 2016), pp. 63, 78, 80.

  10. Sarhad Yunis Muhammad, From Sharazur to Nasiriyah, (Erbil - Hevi Printing House - 2018), pp. 155 - 156, 161, 184.

  11. Salam Abdulkarim, Political Life in Southern Kurdistan 1975 - 1991, (Sulaymaniyah - Chwarchra Printing and Publishing - 2011), p. 112. 

  12. Shakhawan Shorsh, Qadir Shorsh: Forty Years of Struggle and Endeavor, (Denmark - Xoybun Printing House - 2001), p. 150. 

  13. Aida Al-Ali Sari Al-Din, The Kurds in the World: Their History and Future, Part Two, (Beirut - Arab Scientific Publishers - 2018), p. 196.

  14. Fazil Rauf, Towards the Sun, Volume One, (Erbil - Ministry of Culture Printing House - 2001), p. 186.

  15. Fazil Karim Ahmed, We Set Out with a Great Dream, Volume One, (Sulaymaniyah - Tehran Printing House - 2019), pp. 151, 339.

  16. Fuad Sadiq, The Storm of Politics, (Erbil - Ministry of Culture - General Directorate of Printing and Publishing - Roshinbiri Printing House - 2006), pp. 118 - 119.

  17. Muhammad Mullah Qadir, The Book of Struggle: A Short History of the Party and the Culture of the Immortal Barzani, Second Edition, (Erbil - Aras Printing and Publishing Agency - 2007), pp. 96 - 97. 

  18. Nawshirwan Mustafa Amin, From the Banks of the Danube to Kharri Nawzang, (No place - 1997), p. 191.

  19. Muhammad Haji Mahmoud, Diary of a Peshmerga 1976 - 1996, Volume Four, (Sulaymaniyah - Dilan Printing House - 2009), p. 1126.