Biography

Mihemed Hacî Mehmûd Mihemed, also known as Hemey Hacî Mehmûd and Kake Heme, was born in the city of Halabja in 1953. In 1975, after the collapse of the September Revolution he migrated to Iran. On August 18, 2004, he was appointed as a member of the Iraqi Interim National Council. On June 4, 2005, he became a member of the Kurdistan National Council (second term) on the list of the Kurdistan Socialist Democratic Party. On May 7, 2006, he became a Minister of the Region (fifth cabinet). He is fluent in Kurdish, Persian, and Arabic.

Career

In 1968, he joined the ranks of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and was granted the honor of membership in 1968. In 1976, he joined the ranks of the Marxist-Leninist Committee. On June 26, 1976, he joined the Peshmerga Forces. In November 1976, he participated in the Bani Binok battle in Halabja. In 1977, he was a sector commander in the Peshmerga forces of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK). On April 17, 1978, he left the ranks of the Marxist-Leninist Committee due to ideological disagreements, but remained as a Peshmerga within the ranks of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan. In June 1980, he was the commander of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) forces in the Khoshnawti region. On September 16, 1980, he commanded the PUK forces in the battle of Tepa Sefa in Halabja.

On December 12, 1980, he joined the ranks of the Kurdistan Socialist Unity Party. On January 3, 1981, he managed to capture Nechirvan Mustafa, the Secretary of the Komala Rencderen, in the village of Qawila in Halabja. In 1981, he became an alternate member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Socialist Party (first congress). On April 17, 1981, he was one of the commanders of the Alan and Hasil battle in Halabja against the invading forces of the Iraqi army. In August 1981, he became a member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Socialist Party and the head of the Sulaymaniyah branch of that party. In the summer of 1982, he participated in the liberation of the Halabja-Sayid Sadiq road. On August 2, 1983, as a commander of the Kurdistan Socialist Party forces, he participated with the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) forces in the Shekrali-Khakukhole battle in Halabja. In 1986, as a commander of the Kurdistan Socialist Party in Sharazur, he signed a peace agreement with the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK). In April 1986, he was the cause of peace between the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan and the Kurdistan Socialist Party.

During the uprising in South Kurdistan in 1991, he participated in the liberation of Sharazur, Sulaymaniyah, Khanaqin, and Kirkuk. On March 19, he represented the Kurdistan Socialist Party (PSK) at the Kurdistan Front meeting to determine the date of the Kurdistan National Council elections and the economic and security situation of South Kurdistan. In early 1992, he participated in the Kurdistan Front meeting for the establishment of the High Committee for Monitoring the Kurdistan National Council Elections. On April 7, 1992, representing the Kurdistan Socialist Party, he participated in the broad meeting of the Kurdistan Front in Pirman for the preparations of the Kurdistan National Council elections. In 1992, he became a candidate for the Unity List for the Kurdistan National Council elections. In 1992, he became a member of the leadership of the Kurdistan Unity Party. On Thursday, 20.08.1992, in Erbil, he participated in the first congress of the Kurdistan Unity Party. On Thursday, 27.08.1992, he was elected as a member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Unity Party. In 1992, he became a member of the military organization of the Kurdistan Unity Party.

In 1993, he was elected by the congress delegates as a member of the Political Bureau of the Kurdistan Democratic Party – United (11th Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party), but he remained in this position for a short time and left the KDP. On Wednesday, October 6, 1993, at the Bashmakh border crossing in Sulaymaniyah province, as a member of the Political Bureau of the Kurdistan Democratic Party – United, he welcomed the coffins of President Mustafa Barzani (1903-1979) and Idris Barzani (1944-1987), which were brought from the Islamic Republic of Iran to their final resting place in the village of Barzan in Erbil province. On April 20, 1983, he participated in the Kani Berdine battle. On November 15, 1994, he held the founding congress of the Kurdistan Socialist Democratic Party in Erbil. On Saturday, 18.03.1995, he was welcomed in Pirman by the leader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party – United.

In October 1999, he participated in the founding congress of the Association of Veteran Peshmerga of the Kurdistan Communist Party. In 2014, he was the commander of the Kirkuk front against ISIS forces. On Monday, January 21, he was welcomed by President Masoud Barzani .

Among his works:

  1. Revolution and Peshmerga Life - A Test of Seven Years of Revolution 1976 - 1983 - 1991.

  2. Explanation in a Few Lines - 1993.

  3. Diary of a Peshmerga - Discusses 20 Years of the Struggle of Our People's New Revolution 1976 - 1996 - Volume 1 - 1998.

  4. Diary of a Peshmerga - Discusses 20 Years of the Struggle of Our People's New Revolution 1976 - 1996 - Volume 2 - no year.

  5. Diary of a Peshmerga - Discusses 20 Years of the Struggle of Our People's New Revolution 1976 - 1996 - Volume 3 - 2001.

  6. Diary of a Peshmerga - Discusses 20 Years of the Struggle of Our People's New Revolution 1976 - 1996 - Volume 4 - 2001.

References:

  1. Ahmed Banikhelani, My Memories, (Stockholm, 1997), p. 409-410, 532.

  2. Faiq Qadir Hama Saleh, Kwanuy Xebat, (Tehran – Jang Printing House – 2019), p. 238, 247, 249, 250.

  3. Sulayman Mustafa Hassan, Kurds and the First Experience, (Erbil – Karo Printing House – 2017), p. 28, 31, 33, 69, 75, 278.

  4. Ardeshir Pishang, Kurds in the Middle of the Iran-Iraq War, (Tehran - Marz and Bom Publishing House - 1394 H.), p. 306, 329, 334.

  5. Bawar Nuredin, Kurds and Kurdistan Bibliography and index in Kurdish books, volume 2, part 1, (Tehran - Tehran Printing House - 2016), p. 148, 183, 345, 346.

  6. The War on Iraq: Diary - Documents - Reports 1990 - 2005, (Beirut - Arab Unity Studies Center - 2007), p. 524, 1159.

  7. Ahmed Sharif Lek, Interpretation of Historical Events, Volume 2, (Erbil - Rojhelat Printing House - 2019), p. 68.

  8. Khalif Xefur, Golden Period, Volume 1, (Kirkuk - Kirkuk Cultural and Social Association - Karo Printing House - 2011), p. 251, 252, 255, 256, 360, 261, 263, 265.

  9. Rekar Ahmed, Unity and Dissolution, (Erbil – Bahast Printing House – 2016), p. 63, 78, 80.

  10. Serhed Yunis Mihemed, From Sharazur to Nasiriyah, (Erbil – Hevi Printing House – 2018), p. 155-156, 161, 184.

  11. Selam Abdulkerim, Political Life in South Kurdistan 1975-1991, (Sulaymaniyah, Charchira Publishing House, 2011), p. 112.

  12. Shaxewan Shoresh, Qadir Shoresh Forty Years of Struggle and Effort, (Denmark - Xoybun Printing House - 2001), p. 150.

  13. Ayda Al-Ali Siri Al-Din, Kurds in the World, Their History and Future, Part Two, (Beirut - Arab Scientific Publishers - 2018), p. 196.

  14. Fazil Reuf, Towards the Sun, Volume 1, (Erbil, Ministry of Culture Printing House, 2001), p. 186.

  15. Fazil Kerim Ahmed, We set out with big dreams, Volume 1, (Sulaymaniyah - Taran Printing House - 2019), p. 151, 339.

  16. Fuad Sadiq, The Storm of Politics, (Erbil, Ministry of Culture, General Directorate of Printing and Publishing, Cultural Printing House, 2006), p. 118-119.

  17. Mihemed Mela Qadir, Work Record Short History of the Party and the Culture of the Immortal Barzani, 2nd Edition, (Erbil - Aras Publishing House - 2007), p. 96-97.

  18. Newshirwani Mustafa Amin, From the banks of the Danube to the center, (No Place, 1997), p. 191.

  19. Yearbook of a Peshmerga, 1976 - 1996 - Volume 4, (Sulaymaniyah - Dilan Printing House - 2009), p. 1126.