Salim Ahmed Salim Rasho was born in 1914 in the village of Chiyê, in the Nerwa and Rêkan area of the Amedi district of Duhok Governorate.
In 1945 he took part in Barzani's Second Revolution. In 1961, when the September Revolution broke out, he joined the revolution's Peshmerga force and took part in the Geli Zawita battle and the battles of Behdinan in 1961 and 1962 to drive the Iraqi army and jash forces out of the area. His brother Sinar Ahmadi was martyred in 1961.
In 1962, together with Mullah Mustafa Barzani, he crossed to the Soran area and the Balak region. He took part in the battle of the Sufis belonging to Sheikh Rashid of Lolan and the Safin battle. In 1965 he took part in the Qaradagh, Pirmamagrun, Sari Spilik, Kewrash, and Dêrê battles in the Amedi area, and in the Geli Ali Beg battle in the Diyana subdistrict and Doski area. In 1975, after the defeat of the September Revolution, he became a refugee in Iran and settled in the city of Naghadeh in East Kurdistan. From there, he and his family were sent to Sabzevar in Khorasan Province, and later transferred to Shahroud in Semnan Province.
In 1977 he took part in the Gulan Revolution; that same year, a son named Haji Salim was martyred. In 1982, on the order of Idris Barzani, he returned with two sons, a nephew, and several other Peshmerga to Geli Rash, Bradost Mountain, and the Khwakurk area, where he struck at the enemy as part of a mobile detachment. In 1991 he returned to South Kurdistan and took part in the Kurdish people's uprising against the institutions of the Iraqi government.
On August 16, 1996, at the Party's Golden Jubilee, for the services he had rendered to the Kurds, Kurdistan, and the Barzani path, President Masoud Barzani awarded him the Immortal Barzani Medal. He died of illness on November 21, 2005.
Source:1. Archive of the Encyclopedia Directorate of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.