Tamar Ahmed Shabaz was born in 1931 in the village of Srishma in the Khalifan district of Erbil province. He was married and had two sons and five daughters. In 1975, after the collapse of the Aylul Revolution , he became a refugee in the country of Iran. In 1991, he returned to South Kurdistan, participated in the uprising against the Iraqi Army, and later settled in the ancestral land of his fathers and grandfathers.
In 1962, he joined the strong Peshmerga forces of the Aylul Revolution. In 1963, after the Iraqi regime attacked the village of Srishma in the Khalifan sub-district and burned the village, he and his family went to the areas under the control of the revolution and settled in the Balek region. Tamar Ahmed Shabaz participated in the battles of the Qaladize and Sangasar region in the same year. When the Iraqi Army planned to attack the areas under the control of the revolution from the direction of Mergasor, Sari Akre, and Mount Pires with the intention of occupying the village of Barzan and the region, Mela Mustafa Barzani sent a letter to Ahmed Shabaz to attack the Iraqi Army to reduce the intensity of the fighting in the Barzan region. Therefore, Tamar Ahmed Shabaz , after obtaining permission from Mela Mustafa Barzani, returned to his father and, with the help and support of the people of Srishma, launched a large-scale attack on the Iraqi Army in the Hesar of the village of Rosti in the Balekayati region, causing them heavy losses and damage.
In 1967, Ahmed Shabaz's family was again displaced to the Barzagr plain on the border of the Dashteherti area of the Sidakan sub-district due to the burning of their village by the Iraqi Army, and they remained there until March 11, 1970. After the March 11 Agreement, on the orders of Mela Mustafa Barzani , they returned to the village of Srishma.
In 1981, on the recommendation of Idris Barzani, he returned to the city of Oshnavieh in East Kurdistan and participated in the Gulan Revolution. Later, by the order of Franso Hariri, he returned to Khwakurk as a detachment. In 1987, he participated in the Battle of Gali Rash in the Sidakan region, and in 1988, he participated in the Battle of Nazdardagh, which was part of the battles of the Khwakurk Epic , and was wounded. Tamar Ahmed Shabaz was wounded several times, and all the muscles of his body suffered problems due to severe burns in the Battle of Nazdardagh. Also, in 1987, in Gali Rash, he was severely wounded by the regime's banned napalm, and he lost the sight in one eye. Therefore, in 2013, he was sent to the country of Austria for medical treatment.
In 1991, during the uprising of South Kurdistan, he returned to South Kurdistan via Haji Omaran and participated in the uprising and the liberation of the city of Amadiya. Later, he was made a member of the Helgurd Command. In 1994, he was in the Special Brigade of Sari Blind, and later he was entrusted with the command of the Peshmerga of the village of Srishma in the Khalifan district, who numbered about 100 Peshmerga.
In 1996, on the golden jubilee of the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, he was awarded the Barzani Medal by President Masoud Barzani.
On July 29, 2015, he passed away due to the effects of his wounds. At his own request and in the presence of the representative of President Masoud Barzani and a large crowd from the region, he was buried in the village of Srishma, the ancestral land of his fathers and grandfathers.
Source:1- Archive of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Encyclopedia Board.