Martyr Heme Salih Abdulkarim Mohammed was born in the Year 1947 in the village of Gireze, which is part of the Sayid Sadiq district. He was a villager and was engaged in farming. After the defeat of the September Revolution, he became a refugee in the country of Iran and resided in the Darband Dizli settlement. After their return to Kurdistan, they were forcibly relocated to southern Iraq by the Ba'ath regime and were settled in the city of Diwaniyah. Heme Salih Abdulkarim was married; his wife's name was Khurshide Saeed, and he had three sons and a daughter named Qadir, Serdar, Selah, and Sirwe.
In the Year 1969, he became a Peshmerga in the 3rd Branch of the 9th Battalion of Martyr Dilshad, which was part of the Khabat force of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, where at that time Sheikh Mohammed Basaki was his Head of Branch and Fetah Agha was the battalion commander. In the Year 1974, on Mount Hesen Bege in the Soran area, a bullet hit his right leg and he was severely wounded.
In the Year 1979, he became a Peshmerga again with Abdullah Agha, which was part of the Hewraman force of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.
On September 4, 1981, after carrying out an operation in the Sharazur plain, they wanted to go to the village of Gireze for a short rest and to take some special supplies to the mountains, but before they reached the village of Gireze, they fell into an ambush by a force of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan and confronted them, and as a result, Heme Salih Abdulkarim and his brother Mohammed Abdulkarim (Heme Girezeyî) were martyred.
1. Archive of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Encyclopedia