Politician Rashid Arif Abdulrahman Osman, Known as Rashid Atrushi, joined the ranks of in 1956 Kurdistan Democratic Party and in the year 1961 he joined the ranks of the Peshmerga forces, in the year 1966 and at the Seventh Congress he was elected as the head of the Supervisory and Follow-up Board, in the year 1970 and at the Eighth Congress he was elected as a reserve member of the Central Committee of the Party, 1971 after the 11 March 1970 agreement with the government of Iraq he became the Deputy Governor of Erbil, in the year 1979 and in 9th Congress he became a member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, in the year 1991 and by the decision of the Kurdistan Front he was made Governor of Kirkuk, on the date of 16 March 2015 he passed away due to illness.

Biography

Rashid Arif Abdulrahman Osman was born in the city of Duhok in 1940. He completed his secondary education in 1957 and was appointed as a teacher in the town of Sinjar, affiliated with Mosul Governorate, in 1960. Later, due to Kurdish activities, he was dismissed from his job and reappointed at the silo of the city of Mosul. He was dismissed from his job again on 27 July 1963, imprisoned for four months, and tortured, then exiled to the city of Diwaniyah in central Iraq. He was released in 1964. He passed away due to illness in the Country of Sweden on 16 March 2015, and his body was laid to rest in the city of Duhok on 23 March 2015. He was proficient in the Kurdish, Arabic, Persian, and Swedish languages.

Record of Struggle

Rashid Arif Abdulrahman Osman joined the ranks of the Kurdistan United Democratic Party in 1956 and joined the ranks of the Peshmerga forces in 1961 Aylul Revolution has done and in the year 1963 he was a member of the delegation of the Kurdistan Democratic Party  for negotiations with the government of Iraq.

In 15 of July 1964 he was elected as the head of the Mosul district committee affiliated with the first branch committee, and a year later his rank was promoted to administrator of the branch committee. In the year 1966 he was a representative of the seventh Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the sub-district of Galala in Erbil province and was elected as the head of the oversight and follow-up board. The same year he became the head of the third branch committee. In the year 1970 and in The Eighth Congress was elected as a reserve member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. On 3 of April 1971 he was appointed as Deputy Governor of Erbil, and on 11 of May 1971 he was removed from this position by order of the Revolutionary Command Council.

On 17 of May 1972 by planting three improvised explosive devices at the headquarters of the Third Branch Committee in the city of Kirkuk, an attempt was made to assassinate him by the government of Iraq, but he survived this attempt, and in the year 1973 another attempt was made to assassinate him by a mercenary of the Kirkuk intelligence agency, and with the arrest of the mercenary, this attempt was thwarted.

In the year 1973 he was the head of the organization department in the Political Bureau. In the year 1974 he was made the head of the Seventh Branch Committee Kurdistan Democratic Party. After the collapse of the Aylul Revolution in the year 1975 he was displaced to Iran and was settled in the town of Karaj. In the middle of the year 1977 under the supervision of Idris Barzani (1944-1987) participated in the broad meeting of Karaj, with the aim of assisting the interim leadership of the Kurdistan Democratic Party and supervising 150000 refugees from Southern Kurdistan in the Country of Iran.

In the year 1979 and at the 9th Congress of the party He was elected as a member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. He participated in the uprising of South Kurdistan and on 20 March 1991 he participated with the Kurdistan Front forces in the liberation of the city of Kirkuk. On 24 March 1991 he was appointed as the Governor of Kirkuk by the Kurdistan Front.

On 16 August 1996 due to his service in Aylul Revolution and Gulan Revolution and the uprising of Southern Kurdistan, during the KDP's golden jubilee, by President Masoud Barzani was awarded the Medal of the Immortal Barzani. Representative of Twelfth Congress (1999) and Thirteenth Congress (2010)  of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.

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