Shexela Ibrahim Shexela was born in 1949 in the village of Cistan in the Dibega sub-district of the Makhmur district, Erbil province. He completed his primary and secondary education in Dibega. In 1960, he established contact with the ranks of the Kurdistan Students Union. On April 4, 1964, he joined the Peshmerga forces of the September Revolution and became a Peshmerga in the Faris Bawe Battalion. In 1961, he received the rank of political cadre in Branch Two. He participated in battles in Koya, Mount Bawaji, Smaquli, the Balisan Valley, Marga, and Pishdar against the Iraqi army. In the Year 1965, he was wounded in his right leg during the Asos battle. In 1967, he received the rank of Head of Branch in the First Battalion of the Erbil Plain Force.
After the March 11, 1970 agreement, he was appointed to the Erbil Education Directorate and became an accounting clerk. In 1972, he completed the Islamic Institute in Erbil. In 1974, after the Iraqi government failed to adhere to the March 11 agreement and the war began, Shexela Ibrahim joined the Peshmerga forces of the Erbil Plain Force, whose base was in the village of Zewe in the Khoshnaweti region.
In 1975, after the defeat of the September Revolution, he migrated to Iran and settled in the city of Shino. Later, he was moved to the city of Dezful. On October 5, 1975, he returned to Iraq and was exiled to the city of Shatra in Basra province. In 1976, he was exiled and deported to the city of Nasiriyah. In 1979, he returned to the city of Erbil, and a year later, he left Erbil and went to East Kurdistan.
In 1980, he joined the Peshmerga forces of the Gulan Revolution. In 1981, at the internal conference of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, he was elected as a member of Branch Two. In 1982, he received the rank of Branch Administrator. On April 14, 1987, during the chemical bombardment of Shex Wasan, he was severely wounded. That same year, he carried out several partisan operations against the Iraqi army in the Khoshnaweti region and remained there until 1988. After carrying out the operation, he went to the Erbil Plain and Koya.
In 1988, he returned to East Kurdistan and became the head of the Zewe camp there. After the Tenth Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, he was transferred to Branch Two and returned to the Erbil and Khoshnaweti regions with a Peshmerga unit. In 1991, he returned to South Kurdistan with President Masoud Barzani. He participated in the liberation of the cities of Soran, Khalifan, and Erbil. On March 20, 1991, he participated in the liberation of the city of Kirkuk with the Peshmerga of Branch Two.
On March 19, 1992, after the Kurdistan Parliament elections and the formation of the first cabinet of the Kurdistan Regional Government, Shexela Ibrahim became Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Irrigation. In 1999, he received the rank of Deputy Head of Branch Two of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. In 2005, he was elected as a member of the second term of the Kurdistan Parliament and retired in 2009.
On December 15, 2010, at the 13th Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, he received the Medal of the Immortal Barzani from President Masoud Barzani.
1. Archive of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Encyclopedia Board.