Biography

Salih Hussein Murad, known as Salih Hussein Gwezi, a Peshmerga and companion of Barzani to the Soviet Union, was born in 1925 in the village of Gwezi, affiliated with the Shirwan Mazn sub-district in the Mergasor district of Erbil province.

Career

 In 1944, he joined the ranks of the Second Barzan Revolution and participated in the battles. On August 19, 1945, by order of the military martial court, all his movable and immovable property and assets were seized. 

After the collapse 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 and participated in the battles of the Saqqez front in the Republic of Kurdistan.

 On April 19, 1947, he decided to continue the resistance under the command of General Mustafa Barzani . On May 23, 1947, at the very beginning of the march toward the Soviet Union in the village of Dre, he was severely wounded due to the bombardment by the aircraft of the Iraqi Royal Air Force. At the request of Mullah Mustafa Barzani, he was handed over to the village mukhtar to be transported to Shirwan and handed over to the government; for this purpose, he gave three weapons to the village mukhtar. Later, he was transferred by government officials in the area to the Mosul hospital to receive treatment, but he was martyred by the Iraqi government through the injection of poison and the administration of poisonous medicine.

 

Sources:

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  7. Archive of the Encyclopedia Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.