Ibrahim Muhammad Aziz, known as Ibrahim Rashaway (Rashaveyi), was born in 1928 in the village of Rashaway in the Nehli area, affiliated with the Amadiya district of Duhok province. In 1959, he joined the ranks of the Party, and in 1961, with the outbreak of the Aylul Revolution , he went to the ranks of the Peshmerga with his weapon in the Barwari Bala area and participated in the battles of the Amadiya region with the Peshmerga of Mullah Shani. Later, he became a Peshmerga under Haris Khano Bedaruni and participated in the battles of Khizala, Gora Bahive, Sari Bedarun, and the Chame Bridge. In 1962, along with General Mustafa Barzani , he crossed into the Soran area. Initially, he was in Dolaraqa and later in Sangasar with Hasso Mirxan Zhazhuki . In 1964, he was transferred to the Galala area, and in 1965, he was in Qasre. Due to carrying and moving boxes of bullets and mortar shells, he suffered from back pain and was transferred to Urmia, where he underwent surgery.
In 1975, after the failure of the revolution, he was resting and gave his weapon to the Iraqi regime, but he smuggled himself to the Doski area and from there, through North Kurdistan, he reached the Zive camp and the city of Naghadeh, where he was made a guard of the Barzani headquarters. After Barzani went to Karaj, he was transferred to the Jahrom camp and from there was sent to the city of Abadan. Later, he smuggled himself back to the city of Karaj and met Idris Barzani. On September 16, 1976, by Idris Barzani, he was sent back to South Kurdistan.
In 1980, he was with the Peshmerga forces affiliated with Mustafa Nerwayi. In 1980, after the outbreak of the war between Iraq and Iran, the Ismankawa valley in the Badinan region was gradually liberated, so Ibrahim Rashaveyi went to the village of Ala in the Nerwa area, where they formed a village of nearly 40 families of Peshmerga families. In 1988, after the infamous Anfal campaign and the chemical bombardment of the Badinan region, along with all the families of that village, he reached North Kurdistan, and on October 10, 1989, he returned to East Kurdistan. In 1992, after the popular uprising of South Kurdistan, he returned to South Kurdistan.
Ibrahim Rashaveyi participated in 39 battles and was wounded in the battles of Sari Amadiya in 1961, the battles of the Choman region in 1974, and the Battle of Gali Rashaway in the Amadiya region in 1978. In 2010, in the Thirteenth Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party , by President Masoud Barzani , he was awarded the Barzani Medal.
Source:1. Archive of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Encyclopedia Board.