Politician Ramazan Muhsin Amin Rashid, Known as Ramazan Akrayi, joined the ranks of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in Year 1946,  in Year 1960 was among those who requested a license for the official operation of the Kurdistan Democratic Party and, in Year 1964 and at the Sixth Congress he became a member of the Party's Central Committee and in the same year was elected as a member of the Revolutionary Command Council in Kurdistan, and in Year 1966 he ceased his party activities.

Biography

Ramazan Muhsin Amin Rashid was born in Year 1927 in the city of Duhok, completed his high school education, and later participated in a surveying course in the city of Baghdad. In Year 1958, he was appointed as an employee in the Mosul Agriculture Directorate. In Year 1961, he was imprisoned and tortured for seven months in the Jalawla prison on the border of Diyala Governorate. During the years (1966-1969), despite having ceased his party activities, he was exiled by the Iraqi government authorities to the city of Nasiriyah in southern Iraq. In Year 1970, he became the director of the General Agriculture Board of Mosul, and in Year 1995, he passed away in the city of Mosul. He was proficient in the Kurdish and Arabic languages.

Struggle Record‌

Ramazan Muhsin Amin Rashid in Year 1946 was a member of the first cell of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the city of Mosul. In Year 1958, he was the head of the Akre branch committee of the United Kurdistan Democratic Party. In Year 1959, he was a representative at the Fourth Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party-Iraq in the city of Baghdad, and in Year 1960 he was made an administrator of the First Branch Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. On January 8, Year 1960, he was among those who officially requested that the Kurdistan Democratic Party become a licensed party and work openly. In the same year, he was a representative at the Fifth Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the city of Baghdad. In Year 1961, he was imprisoned and tortured for seven months in the Jalawla prison on the border of Diyala Governorate, and in Year 1962 he was released from prison and headed to the liberated areas and joined the ranks of the Peshmerga forces.

In Year 1964, he was a member of the conference committee of the Sixth Congress in the border area of Branch One, and at that congress, he was elected as a member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party and became a member of the Revolutionary Command Council in Iraqi Kurdistan, and later became a member of the Finance Committee affiliated with the Executive Office (Al-Maktab al-Tanfidhi) of the Revolutionary Command Council in Iraqi Kurdistan.

In Year 1965, he became the head of the Second Branch Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, and in Year 1966 he was a representative at the Seventh Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the town of Galala in Erbil Governorate. In the middle of Year 1966, he was appointed by the Central Committee as the second official of the Third Branch Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.

In Year 1966, he ceased his party activities, and during the years (1966-1969) he was exiled by the Iraqi government authorities to the city of Nasiriyah in southern Iraq. In Year 1973, he turned his back on the Kurdistan Democratic Party and was appointed as a member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party affiliated with the Ba'ath Party.

 On December 31, 1995, he passed away in the city of Mosul and was buried in the New Mosul (Al-Mawsil al-Jadidah) cemetery.

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