Biography

Rashid Haji Badri Abdullah Muhi, was born in the year 1931 in the city of Duhok. His father was one of the tribal leaders of the Sindi tribe and he is the brother of Suleiman Haji Badri, a member of the Revolutionary Command Council in Kurdistan of Iraq. He initially began with religious studies and later studied primary education in the town of Zakho and completed his intermediate and secondary stages in the city of Mosul, and in the year 1957 completed the Military College in Baghdad. He is proficient in the Kurdish, Arabic, Persian, and English languages.

Struggle History

Rashid Haji Badri Abdullah Muhi in the year 1955 through officer Yusuf Jamil Miran joined the ranks of Kurdistan Democratic Party- Iraq, in the year 1958 after the return of President Mustafa Barzani (1903-1979) from the Soviet Union, in his officer uniform he visited President Mustafa Barzani at the Semiramis Hotel in the city of Baghdad.

In the year 1962 because of being a Kurd, he was transferred by the Iraqi Army authorities to the Kirkuk recruitment office, and in the year 1963 in Sulaymaniyah he was sent under arrest by the Iraqi Army Intelligence to Kirkuk and later to Baghdad.  

On the 3 of March 1963 with the rank of First Lieutenant, he left the ranks of the Iraqi Army and joined the ranks of the Peshmerga forces of the Aylul Revolution and was appointed as a platoon commander in the Martyr Sadiq branch in the Shwan region within the borders of Kirkuk Governorate, and in the same year he was the head of the Fourth Sector of the Khanaqin-Halabja-Penjwen region. On the 20 of June 1963 he was the commander of the Shwan battle against the Iraqi Army ground forces and the Arab militia of Hawija, and in this battle he was able to achieve victory. As a military commander, he participated in and supervised several battles and confrontations.

In the year 1964 after the broad meeting in Mawat with most of the officers of the Revolutionary Army of Kurdistan, he decided to support President Mustafa Barzani (1903-1979) and stood against the Political Bureau faction. In June 1964 he was elected as a member of the preparatory committee for the Sixth Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party and was a representative to the founding congress of the Revolutionary Command Council in Kurdistan of Iraq.

In the Aylul Revolution he was the head of the Military Bureau (Military Office) affiliated with the Executive Office (Al-Maktab al-Tanfidhi) of the Prime Minister of the Revolutionary Command Council in Kurdistan of Iraq. In the year 1970 and in the Eighth Congress he was elected as a member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.

On the 4 of January 1975 he was made a member of the Military Planning Board of the Aylul Revolution and in the year 1975 after the collapse of the Aylul Revolution he became a refugee in Iran. In the year 1977 under the supervision of Idris Barzani (1944-1987) he participated in the broad meeting in Karaj, with the purpose of assisting the interim leadership of the Kurdistan Democratic Party and also supervising 150000 refugees of South Kurdistan in the country of Iran.

In the year 1979 he returned to South Kurdistan and on the 25 of October 1979 by an order of the Revolutionary Command Council of Iraq he was appointed as an advisor to the Northern Affairs Committee. After the uprising of South Kurdistan, he was appointed as a member of the department in the military section of the Kurdistan Democratic Party and in the year 1992 with the rank of Major General (General) he was retired in the Ministry of Peshmerga of the Kurdistan Regional Government. On the 22 of August 1993 and in the Eleventh Congress he was elected as a member of the Central Board of Inspection and Oversight of the Kurdistan Democratic Party - Unified. He was a representative to the Twelfth Congress 1999 and Thirteenth Congress 2010 of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.

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