Rashid Baqi Muhammad was born in 1930 in the village of Korke, affiliated with the Goratu sub-district in the Mergasor district of Erbil province. After the collapse of the first Barzan Revolution, when Sheikh Ahmed Barzani and a large number of Barzani families took refuge in North Kurdistan, he also became a refugee in the Republic of Turkey with his family on June 21, 1932. However, after the Turkish authorities handed Sheikh Ahmed Barzani over to the Iraq government in 1933, their family, like all the families who had taken refuge in North Kurdistan with Sheikh Ahmed, returned to South Kurdistan. He studied in the Soviet Union and received a bachelor's degree in agriculture from the University of Tashkent. He passed away on January 1, 2002, in the village of Korke.
Struggle RecordIn 1943, he joined the ranks of the Second Barzan Revolution. On October 2, 1943, he participated in the capture of the Shanadar police station, and on November 10 of the same year, he participated in the capture of the Mazne police station. He participated in the capture of the Rezan police station, for which he had all his movable and immovable property seized by order of the Iraqi Military Tribunal on August 19, 1945.
On August 25, 1945, he participated in the Battle of Qalander Mountain. He participated in the battles of Bardi Qalati and Hajiya Sur. He was wounded in the Badinan battle, and on September 5, he participated in the capture of the Maydan Moriki police station.
After the collapse of the Second Barzan Revolution, he headed to East Kurdistan on October 11, 1945. On March 31, 1946, he was a Peshmerga in the Barzan force affiliated with the army of the Republic of Kurdistan. On April 29, he participated in the Battle of Qarawa in the Saqqez region of East Kurdistan, and on May 3, he participated in the Battle of Malqareni Mamasha.
After the collapse of the Republic of Kurdistan, he participated in the battles of Qalatan, Sangan, and Galasi in East Kurdistan. On March 3, 1947, he participated in the Battle of Nolos, and on March 19, he participated in the Battle of Naghadeh and Oshnavieh. Later, he was made a guard for the artillery division. He was among the Peshmerga who returned to the Sherwan and Mizuri region through North Kurdistan via the (Xwakurk and Bazargir plain) route on April 19, 1947.
After their return, General Mustafa Barzani held a meeting with his companions in the village of Argosh on May 6, 1947, and gave them the choice of staying or heading toward the Soviet Union. There, all the companions decided to continue and head toward the Soviet Union. On May 23, 1947, he accompanied General Mustafa Barzani toward the Soviet Union and participated in the Battle of Gali Qotur and the Battle of Maku Bridge. After much hardship and fatigue, on June 18, 1947, he crossed the Aras River, which lies on the border between Iran and the Soviet Union, into the Soviet Union.
After arriving in the Soviet Union, on June 19, 1947, he and all his companions were placed in the city of Nakhchivan in the Republic of Azerbaijan for forty days in an open-air complex surrounded by barbed wire. They were guarded by a group of soldiers and were treated like prisoners of war in terms of food, clothing, and movement. Later, by decision of the Soviet government, they were distributed among the regions of Aghdam, Lachin, Ayulakh, and Kalbajar in the Republic of Azerbaijan. On December 10, 1947, they were transferred to a military camp on the Caspian Sea in Baku, the capital of the Republic of Azerbaijan, and on the 23rd of the same month, they were given military uniforms and underwent eight hours of military training daily under the supervision of officers of the Republic of Azerbaijan. At the same time, for four hours a day, they were taught lessons in the Kurdish language by some of their companions who were literate.
After the poor treatment of his companions by Jafar Baghirov, it was decided to move the military camp from the Republic of Azerbaijan on August 29, 1948, to the Charchuk complex near Tashkent, the capital of the Republic of Uzbekistan, where they continued their military training.
In March 1949, he and his companions were distributed in groups and squads by train across the collective farms of the Soviet Union and worked in the kolkhoz fields (lands that people rented from the government and later gave the government's share back).
After much effort and the sending of several letters by General Barzani to Stalin, a letter finally reached Stalin in which Barzani described the hardships of his companions. He immediately ordered the formation of a committee to investigate the Situation of Barzani's companions, and the committee's final decision was that they should all be gathered in the city of Vrevsky. Therefore, he went to the city of Vrevsky in the Soviet Union in November 1951.
After the July 14, 1958 revolution in Iraq and the return of General Mustafa Barzani, on February 25, 1959, and in accordance with both the third and seventh articles and paragraph (A) of the tenth article, and by applying Article (11) based on the amended Law No. 19 of 1959, he and his companions were granted a general amnesty.
In 1958, the Republic of Iraq was established under the presidency of Abdul Karim Qasim. On April 16, 1959, he returned to Kurdistan with his companions on the ship Gruzia via the port of Basra in the south of the Republic of Iraq.
In 1959, he was appointed as an employee in the Agriculture Administration, but he did not perform government work and became a guard for Barzani in Baghdad. In 1961, he participated in the Aylul Revolution. In 1962, he participated in the Battle of Sari Akre and Sari Pirsi and was wounded. On the night of June 14-15, 1963, he participated in the Battle of Sari Akre and was wounded again while being pursued by the Iraq government near the Rezan bridge. He participated in the battles of Shile Baraz, Shehe, Safte, Goratu, Gura Bayve (Garwa Guzhe), Ishukur, and Gali Hassan Mama (Gali Zanta).
In 1975, he participated in the Battle of Doli Shahid and in the same year, after the collapse of the September Revolution, he went as a refugee to the Kingdom of Iran to the Ziveh complex and from there he was moved to Shahrekord in the Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province where he resided.
In Year 1979, he participated in the Gulan Revolution and became a platoon leader and upon the instructions of the respected Idris Barzani and Masoud Barzani he returned to the Ziveh complex and was made a battalion commander and head of the security base for President Masoud Barzani and continued in this duty until 1991.
In 1991, he returned to Kurdistan with President Masoud Barzani to Ranya and Diana and participated in the uprising. In 1993, by order of President Masoud Barzani he was made a member of the Shirwani One Social Committee. On August 16, 1996, within the framework of the Golden Jubilee celebrations, for his struggle and resistance in the Second Barzan Revolution, the Republic of Kurdistan, the march towards the Soviet Union, the September، Gulan Revolution and the uprising, he was awarded the Barzani the Immortal medal by President Masoud Barzani. In 1997, he was wounded in the civil war. On October 6, 1999, he was an honorary representative of the Twelfth Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party - Iraq in Erbil.
Sources:- Archive of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Encyclopedia Board.