Murad Agha Shekho Ahmed was born in 1910 in the village of Bire - Amedi, currently in Duhok province (Mosul Vilayet). He married in the Soviet Union. In 1954, he obtained a diploma from the Institute of Arts - Agriculture Department in the Soviet Union. In 1975, after the collapse of the Aylul Revolution like thousands of others, he became a refugee in the Country of Iran and resided in several cities such as Mashhad, Isfahan, the refugee camp for Kurds from South Kurdistan in Ziveh, and the city of Qazvin. He passed away in 1984 in the city of Qazvin and was buried in East Kurdistan.
Struggle RecordMurad Agha Shekho was a participant in the Second Barzan Revolution (1943-1945) and was a Peshmerga of the Republic of Kurdistan in the city of Mahabad in East Kurdistan. After the fall of the Republic of Kurdistan, he participated in the defensive battles until he reached the border of South Kurdistan on April 15, 1947, but he did not surrender and, along with General Mustafa Barzani (1903-1979), decided to go to the Soviet Union and continue his struggle. On May 22, 1947, he accompanied General Mustafa Barzani towards the Soviet Union and participated in the Battle of Kotol (Qotur) and the Battle of Maku Bridge. After much hardship, fatigue, and several battles and skirmishes, along with his companions, under the leadership of General Mustafa Barzani 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, guarded by a group of soldiers, and 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 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, some of their companions who were literate taught them lessons in the Kurdish language.
After the poor treatment of Barzani's companions by Jafar Baghirov, it was decided to move the military camp on August 29, 1948, from the Republic of Azerbaijan to the Charchuk compound 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 to the collective villages of the Soviet Union and worked on the collective farms (Kolkhozes) (lands that people rented from the government and later returned the government's share).
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 Barzani's companions, and the committee's final decision was that they should all be gathered in the city of Vrevitsk, so he 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. On April 16, 1959, Murad Agha Shekho returned to Kurdistan with his companions by the ship Gruzia via the port of Basra in the south of the Republic of Iraq.
After returning from the Soviet Union to Iraq, he returned to his homeland and with the outbreak of the Aylul Revolution (1961-1975) he became a Peshmerga again and participated in several battles and epics. After the collapse of the Aylul Revolution (1961-1975), he became a refugee in the Country of Iran.
Source:1- Archive of the Kurdistan Encyclopedia Board.