Biography

Muhammad Amin Muhammad Ali Salih Sulaiman, known as Hama Amin Beg, was born on July 24, 1924, in the city of Sulaymaniyah. He belongs to the noble families of Sulaymaniyah, which are among the oldest families in the city of Sulaymaniyah. On October 25, 1948, he was appointed as a temporary employee with the rank of professional inspector in the Directorate of Public Works (Al-Ashghal al-Amma), and on March 27, 1949, he was appointed as a permanent employee.

In Year 1953, he obtained a Master's degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Michigan in the United States of America. In Year 1956, he was the Director of Roads in Amarah in southern Iraq. In Year 1959, he was a member of the administrative board of the Iraqi Engineers Syndicate. On May 21, 1958, he was transferred as an engineer to the Hilla Road Directorate. On October 4, 1958, he was transferred to the Diyala Road Directorate. On September 12, 1961, he was transferred to the General Housing Directorate in the city of Baghdad. On October 27, 1963, he submitted his resignation from work. On March 26, 1967, by a republican decree, he was appointed as the Director General of Reconstruction and Reorganization of the North (I'mar wa I'adat Tanzim al-Shamal). In November Year 1967, he was a member of the screening committee for employees for the Ministry of Northern Affairs. On April 5, 1969, his rank was promoted to Chief Engineer. On August 18, 1970, by order of the Revolutionary Command Council, he was made Director General in the Ministry of Northern Affairs in the cabinet of Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr (1914–1982). On December 31, 1970, he was a member of the Supreme Planning Committee for the reconstruction and development of Kurdistan. In Year 1972, he supervised the construction of thirty thousand houses in southern Kurdistan for the families of martyrs and Peshmerga.

In Year 1975, he was severely injured in a car rollover while touring. In Year 1975, after the collapse of the Aylul Revolution he headed to the Kingdom of Iran as a refugee. In Year 1977, he headed to the city of London for medical treatment. On May 9, 1979, he passed away in a hospital in the city of London, far from his family and homeland, after a long period of suffering from the severity of cancer. Upon his request, his body was transferred to the city of Sulaymaniyah and he was laid to rest in the Saywan Hill cemetery in the city of Sulaymaniyah. On September 14, 1980, his retirement service was processed. He was proficient in Kurdish, Arabic, English, and Persian.

Struggle Record

In Year 1949, he joined the ranks of the Party. During the period of open activity of the Kurdistan Democratic Party during the reign of Abd al-Karim Qasim (1914–1963), he was the representative of the Party in the Iraqi Engineers Syndicate. In Year 1963, he joined the ranks of the Peshmerga forces. In Year 1963, he was made a member of the Fifth Branch Committee. In Year 1964, he became a member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Sixth Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, in Year 1964 he became a member of the Revolutionary Command Council in Iraqi Kurdistan, and in Year 1964 he became a member of the Executive Bureau (al-Maktab al-Tanfidhi) of the Revolutionary Command Council in Iraqi Kurdistan. At the end of Year 1965, he was elected as a member of the Political Bureau of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. On April 15, 1967, under the supervision of President Mustafa Barzani , he participated in the Kani Samak (Erbil) military-political conference as a member of the Executive Bureau of the Revolutionary Command Council in Iraqi Kurdistan.

In Year 1970, he was a representative of the 8th Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party . On September 29, 1971, in the village of Haji Omaran in Erbil Governorate, he was present for the speech given by President Mustafa Barzani (1903–1979) following the suicide attack by the Iraqi government to assassinate President Mustafa Barzani. In Year 1972, as a representative of the Fifth Branch Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party , he accompanied the funeral procession of Sheikh Latif Hafid from the city of Baghdad to the city of Sulaymaniyah. In Year 1972, President Mustafa Barzani sent a delegation of the Political Bureau of the Kurdistan Democratic Party accompanied by Salih Abdullah Najmadin (1918–1981), known as Seyda Salih Yusifi, Engineer Nuri Sadiq Ali (1922–1981), known as Nuri Shaways, and Engineer Ali Abdullah Amin to the city of Sulaymaniyah to participate in the funeral of Latif Mahmud Saeed, known as Sheikh Latif Hafid , the First Deputy of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in Year 1946.

In Year 1973, he was an administrator of the Fifth Branch Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party . On April 8, 1973, he visited the city of Moscow with the Iraqi-Soviet Friendship Society as a member of this society. On April 9, 1973, he participated in the celebration of the first anniversary of the Iraqi Republic-Soviet Union Cooperation Agreement in the city of Moscow, and during his visit to the Soviet Republic of Uzbekistan, he thanked the officials for their hospitality to the comrades of Mustafa Barzani. At the beginning of Year 1974, he joined the ranks of the Peshmerga forces for the second time. In Year 1974, by order of the Revolutionary Command Council (Majlis Qiyadat al-Thawra) affiliated with the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party, all of his and his family's assets were confiscated by the authorities of the Republic of Iraq, and along with a group of other families, his children and his wife were expelled toward the border of the liberated areas on April 28, 1974. On May 24, 1974, by an order of the Revolutionary Command Council, he was dismissed from his job due to his joining the ranks of the Aylul Revolution. In Year 1974, he was the head of the Fifth Branch Committee. 

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