Biography

Salim Shekhomar Ahmed was born in 1888 in the village of Bedod, affiliated with the Piran sub-district in the Mergasor district of Erbil Governorate. After going to the Soviet Union, he married there and had a daughter named Ludmila. He was proficient in the Kurdish and Russian languages. He passed away in 1954 in Uzbekistan and was buried there.

Struggle Record

In 1931, he joined the ranks of the First Barzan Revolution. On April 3, 1932, he participated in the Battle of Meydandari in Dulavazhi. On June 21, 1932, he and his family became refugees in the Republic of Turkey. In 1943, he joined the ranks of the Second Barzan Revolution and participated in the battles. On August 19, 1945, by order of the Iraqi military tribunal, all his movable and immovable property was confiscated. On October 11, 1945, following the collapse of the Second Barzan Revolution, he headed to Eastern Kurdistan.

 On March 31, 1946, he served as a Peshmerga in the Barzani force affiliated with the army of the Republic of Kurdistan. He participated in the battles of Salih Awa, Serwe, and Mergewer in Eastern Kurdistan. On May 3, 1946, he participated in the Battle of Milqereni. Furthermore, after the collapse of the Republic of Kurdistan, on March 25, 1947, he participated in the battles of Hevers and Heleji.

He was among the Peshmerga who returned to the Shirwan and Mezuri region through the Khwakurk route and the Barazgir plain via the territory of Northern Kurdistan on April 19, 1947.

After their return, General Mustafa Barzani held a meeting with his companions on May 6, 1947, in the village of Argosh and gave them the choice to stay or go to the Soviet Union. There, all his companions decided to continue and go to the Soviet Union. On May 23, 1947, he accompanied General Mustafa Barzani towards the Soviet Union and participated in the Battle of Geli Qotur and the Battle of Maku Bridge. After much hardship and fatigue, on June 18, 1947, he crossed the Aras River, which is located on the border between Iran and the Soviet Union, into the Soviet Union.

After arriving in the Soviet Union, on June 19, 1947, along with all his companions, they were placed in the city of Nakhchivan in the Republic of Azerbaijan for forty days in an open-air compound surrounded by barbed wire. They were guarded by a group of soldiers and were treated like prisoners of war in terms of food, clothing, and movement. Later, by the decision of the Soviet government, they were distributed among the regions of Aghdam, Lachin, Ayolakh, and Kalbajar in the Republic of Azerbaijan. On December 10, 1947, they were moved to a military camp on the Caspian Sea in Baku, the capital of the Republic of Azerbaijan, and on the 23rd of the same month, they were given military uniforms and, under the supervision of the officers of the Republic of Azerbaijan, they were given eight hours of military training daily. At the same time, for four hours a day, they were taught Kurdish language lessons by some of their companions who were literate.

After the poor treatment of the Barzani companions by Jafar Baghirov, it was decided to move the military camp on August 29, 1948, from the Republic of Azerbaijan to the Charchuk community near Tashkent, the capital of the Republic of Uzbekistan, where they continued their military training. 

In March 1949, along with his companions, they were distributed in groups and squads by train among the collective villages of the Soviet Union and worked on the collective farms (kolkhozes) (the lands that people rented from the government and later gave the government's share back). 

After much effort and sending several letters by General Barzani to Stalin, a letter finally reached Stalin in which Barzani described the hardships of his companions, and he immediately ordered the formation of a committee to investigate the situation of the Barzani companions. Eventually, the committee's decision was that they should all be gathered in the city of Vrevitski; therefore, he went to the city of Vrevitski in the Soviet Union in November 1951.

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