Hamid Argushi was born in 1945 in the village of Argush in the Sherwan Mazn sub-district in the Mergasor district of Erbil Governorate. He is married and literate. In 1975, after the collapse of the Aylul Revolution (1961 - 1975), he became a refugee in the country of Iran. At first, he lived in the Zive camp, then he was transferred to the city of Sirjan in Kerman province. After the fall of the Shah's regime in Iran, he returned to East Kurdistan. In 1991, after the popular uprising of South Kurdistan, he returned to Kurdistan and lived in the city of Soran.
In 1959, he joined the ranks of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. In 1961, he joined the Peshmerga Forces of the Aylul Revolution and became a Peshmerga and participated in the battles of the Badinan region, Mount Zozk, Sartiz, Gero Omar Agha, and Goraze. He participated in several activities of the Peshmerga Forces, including disarming police stations in the villages of Argush, Zite, and Sherwan Mazn. He went to the Badinan region with President Mustafa Barzani and stayed there for five years with Isa Suwar and Asad Khoshawi. Later, he went to Ali Khalil, but returned again to Asad Khoshawi. In 1975, before the collapse of the revolution, along with 45 other Peshmerga, he participated in the officer training course of the Peshmerga Forces command of the Aylul Revolution. In 1979, he joined the Peshmerga Forces of the Gulan Revolution and participated in partisan activities and battles against the Iraq army.
In 1979, after the fall of the Shah's regime in Iran, by the order of Idris Barzani, Hamid Haidar Argushi was made responsible for refugee affairs in Kerman province, which had about 1700 refugee families from South Kurdistan. In August 1979, he returned to East Kurdistan and in the village of Nove near Halaj in the city of Urmia, he went to visit President Masoud Barzani and was made a commander of 50 Peshmerga.
In 1981, along with Arif Darwish Sindi, San'an Slori, Safat Shiwi, Baqi Jibrail Merozi, and 260 Peshmerga, under the command of Rais Abdullah, along with Lieutenant Yunis Rojbayani and Azad Qaradaghi, he went to the Zahaw bridge area and later joined the forces of Nadir Hawrami and carried out several partisan activities.
Hamid Argushi continued his Peshmerga duties after the uprising and participated in the battles to defend the rule of law. In the Barzan command, he was responsible for the finance department. In his Peshmerga life, he was wounded more than six times.
On the 15 of December 2010 at the 13 Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, because of his services, by President Masoud Barzani he was awarded the Barzani Medal.
Source:1 - Archive of the Encyclopedia Board of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.