Biography

Salim Hussein Murad, was born in 1921 in the village of Guize, affiliated with the Shirwan Mazin sub-district in the Mergasor district of Erbil province. After going to the Soviet Union, he married twice; he separated from his first wife and married Ruhan Mingazova Ahmed the second time. They had three sons named Idris Salim, Medris Salim, and Murad Salim. In addition to the Kurdish language, he also knew Russian. He passed away in 1987 and was buried in Bahirka. 

Struggle Record

Salim Hussein deserted from the military in 1944 and joined the ranks of the Second Barzan Revolution. In 1945, he participated in the Battle of Dori, and on August 8, he participated in the capture of the Mergasor police station. On August 19 of the same year, by order of the Iraqi military tribunal, all his movable and immovable property was confiscated. 

After the defeat of the Second Barzan Revolution, on October 11, 1945, he headed to Eastern Kurdistan. On March 31, 1946, he became a Peshmerga in the Barzani force affiliated with the army of the Republic of Kurdistan in Mahabad. He participated in the battles of Bukan. After the defeat of the Republic of Kurdistan, on March 25, 1947, he participated in the battles of Hevers and Heleji.

He was among the Peshmerga who returned to the Shirwan and Mizuri region through the Khwakurk road and the Barazgir plain via the territory of Northern Kurdistan on April 19, 1947.

After their return, General Mustafa Barzani held a meeting with his companions on May 15, 1947, in the village of Argosh and gave them the choice to stay or go to the Soviet Union. There, all his companions decided to continue and go to the Soviet Union. On May 23, 1947, he accompanied General Mustafa Barzani towards the Soviet Union and participated in the Battle of Gali Qotur and the Battle of the Maku Bridge. After much hardship and fatigue, on June 18, 1947, he crossed the Aras River, which is located on the border between Iran and the Soviet Union, into the Soviet Union.

After arriving in the Soviet Union, on June 19, 1947, along with all his companions, they were placed in the city of Nakhchivan in the Republic of Azerbaijan for forty days in an open compound surrounded by barbed wire. They were guarded by a group of soldiers and were treated as 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 moved 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, they were taught Kurdish language lessons for four hours daily by some of their companions who were literate.

After the mistreatment of the Barzani companions by Jafar Baghirov, it was decided to move the military camp on August 29, 1948, from the Republic of Azerbaijan to the Charchuk community near Tashkent, the capital of the Republic of Uzbekistan, where they continued their military training. 

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

After much effort and sending 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 the Barzani companions, and the committee's final decision was that they should all be gathered in the city of Vriviski. Therefore, he went to the city of Vriviski in the Soviet Union in November 1951.

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 1975, after the defeat of the Aylul Revolution he remained in his homeland. In 1978, he was displaced by the Iraqi government to Bahirka. 

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