Shekhomer Muhammad or Shekhomer Zeti was born in 1928 in the village of Zeti, affiliated with the Shirwan Mazn sub-district in the Mergasor district of Erbil province. Before going to the Soviet Union, he was married; his wife's name was Shamam Nuh Taha, and they had a son named Jasim Omar (1946). After going to the Soviet Union in 1952, Shekhomer married Zakiya Rajab Jamil in the Soviet Union. They had two sons named Aziz Omar and Tahir Omar. In Year 1955, he began his studies and studied for three years in Nukta Brlski in the Soviet Union. After returning from the Soviet Union, in 1959, he was employed as an official at the sugar factory in Mosul.
Struggle RecordOn May 23, 1947, he accompanied General Mustafa Barzani towards the Soviet Union and participated in the Battle of Qatur and the Battle of 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, into the Soviet Union.
After arriving in the Soviet Union, on June 19, 1947, along with all his companions, he was placed in the city of Nakhchivan in the Republic of Azerbaijan for forty days in an open-air compound surrounded by barbed wire. They were guarded by a group of soldiers and were treated like 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, they were taught lessons in the Kurdish language by some of their companions who were literate.
After the poor treatment by Jafar Bagirov towards Barzani's companions, 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 (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, finally a letter reached Stalin in which Barzani described the hardships of his companions, and he immediately decided to form a committee to investigate the situation of Barzani's companions. Eventually, the committee's decision was that they should all be gathered in the city of Vrevski, so he went to the city of Vrevski in the Soviet Union in November 1951.
After the July 14, 1958 revolution in Iraq and the return of General Mustafa Barzani, on February 25, 1959, and according to both the third and seventh articles and paragraph (A) of the tenth article and the implementation of Article (11) based on the amended Law No. 19 of 1959, he and his companions were granted a general amnesty.
In 1958, the Republic of Iraq was established under the presidency of Abdul Karim Qasim. On April 16, 1959, he and his companions returned to Kurdistan by the ship Grozia via the port of Basra in the south of the Republic of Iraq.
In Year 1961, he participated in the Aylul Revolution and participated in the battles. In 1975, after the collapse of the Aylul Revolution, he went to Iran as a refugee and returned to Kurdistan in the same year. Along with the Provisional Leadership, he participated in the Gulan Revolution. In 1978, he was displaced by the Ba'ath regime to the Harir complex. On July 31, 1983, during the Anfal operation of the Barzanis, he and his son, Aziz Omar, were disappeared by the government of Iraq in the Harir complex.
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