Biography

 Muhammad Amin Shamdin was born in 1919 in the village of Argosh, affiliated with the Sherwan Mazin sub-district in the Mergasor district of Erbil Governorate. He passed away in 2007 and was buried in the Zulfiqar cemetery in the town of Harir.

Struggle Record

 In 1943, he joined the Second Barzan Revolution (1943-1945) and participated in the epics and heroism of the revolution, and was wounded while defending the homeland. After the collapse of the Republic of Kurdistan, he was among the Peshmerga who returned on April 19, 1947, via Khwakurk and the Barazgir plain to the land of Northern Kurdistan from the village of Khwakurk to the village of Argosh and the Herki area.

After their return, General Mustafa Barzani held a meeting with his comrades on May 6, 1947, in the village of Argosh and gave them the choice to stay or go toward the Soviet Union. There, all the comrades decided to continue and go toward the Soviet Union.

 On May 22, 1947, he accompanied General Mustafa Barzani toward the Soviet Union and participated in the battle of the Kotol (Qotur) pass and the battle of the 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, toward the Soviet Union..‌

After arriving in the Soviet Union, on June 19, 1947, he and all his comrades were placed in the city of Nakhchivan in the Republic of Azerbaijan for forty days in an open-air complex surrounded by barbed wire. They were guarded by a group of soldiers and were treated as 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, Ayulakh, and Kalbajar in the Republic of Azerbaijan. On December 10, 1947, they were transferred to a military camp on the Caspian Sea in Baku, the capital of the Republic of Azerbaijan. 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 lessons in learning the Kurdish language by some of their comrades who were literate..

After the bad treatment of Jafar Bagirov toward Barzani's comrades, it was decided to move the military camp on August 29, 1948, from the Republic of Azerbaijan to the Charchuk complex near Tashkent, the capital of the Republic of Uzbekistan, where they continued their military training. 

In March 1949, he and his comrades were distributed in groups and squads by train among the collective villages of the Soviet Union and worked in the collective farms (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 comrades. He immediately decided to form a committee to investigate the situation of Barzani's comrades, and finally, the committee's decision was that they should all be gathered in the city of Vrevitsk. Therefore, Muhammad Amin Shamdin Khalid went to the city of Vrevitsk in the Soviet Union in November 1951..

In 1958, the Republic of Iraq was established under the presidency of Abd al-Karim Qasim. Muhammad Amin Shamdin Khalid returned to Kurdistan on April 16, 1959, with his comrades via the Grozia ship through the port of Basra in the south of the Republic of Iraq..

After his return to the homeland in 1961 and the outbreak of the revolution, he participated in the Aylul Revolution  .

Source:

1- Archive of the Encyclopedia Board of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.