Biography

Salih Muhammad Muhi was born in 1910 in the village of Spindari, affiliated with the Shirwan Mazn sub-district in Mergasor district of Erbil province. Before going to the Soviet Union, he was married and his wife's name was Khan Ahmad, they had a son and a daughter named Yasin Salih (1931) and Zerin Salih (1940). Salih Muhammad passed away in 1974 in the village of Spindari.

Struggle Record

On May 23, 1947, he participated in the march towards the Soviet Union, on June 16, 1947, he participated in the battle of the Susoz heights and was wounded in this battle, on June 18, 1947, he crossed the Aras River, which is located on the border between Iran and the Soviet Union, towards the Soviet Union.

After arriving in the Soviet Union, on June 19, 1947, together with all his companions, they were placed in the city of Nakhchivan in the Republic of Azerbaijan for forty days in an open-air complex surrounded by barbed wire and were guarded by a group of soldiers and were treated like prisoners of war in terms of food, clothing and movement. Later, by the 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 under the supervision of the officers of the Republic of Azerbaijan, they were given eight hours of military training daily. At the same time, for four hours a day, they were taught Kurdish language lessons by some of their companions who were literate.

After the bad treatment of Jafar Bagirov towards the companions of Barzani, it was decided to move the military camp on August 29, 1948, from the Republic of Azerbaijan to the Charchuk complex near Tashkent, the capital of the Republic of Uzbekistan, and they continued their military training there. 

In March 1949, together with his companions, they were distributed in groups and squads by train among the collective farms of the Soviet Union and worked in the Kolkhoz fields (those lands that people rented from the government and later gave the government's share back). 

After a lot of effort and sending many letters by General Barzani to Stalin, finally a letter reached Stalin in which Barzani describes the hardships of his companions and he immediately decides to form a committee to investigate the Situation of Barzani's companions and finally the committee's decision is that they should all be gathered in the city of Vriviski, so he went to the city of Vriviski 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, according to both the third and seventh articles and paragraph (A) of the tenth article and working with article (11) based on the amended Law No. 19 of 1959, he and his companions were covered by the general amnesty. 

In 1958, the Republic of Iraq was established under the presidency of Abdul Karim Qasim, he returned to Kurdistan on April 16, 1959, with his companions by the ship Grozia through the port of Basra in the south of the Republic of Iraq.

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