Name: Hashem
Father Name : Elias
Date Of Birth : 1944
Date Of Death : 1979
Place Of Birth : Baadra
Place Of Death : Iraq
Life
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Biography of the martyr (Mahmoud Yazidi).
His real name (Hashem Elias Silo) from the Hakkariyya clan and from a poor family, he was born in the village of Baadra in 1944, and his mother, Mimo Nermo, died when he was in the sixth year of his life. In the farming business with his father, he also practiced the grazing profession as well.
He showed signs of manhood and courage from an early age, and he was loved and respected among his peers. He had half-brothers and sisters, namely Hussein, Suleiman, Hassan, and Salem, and sisters, Hori, Kozi, Koli, and Ke Tu.
After he reached the age of eighteen, he entered the military service in 1962 and participated in many training courses.
He belonged to the ranks of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in 1963, and his secret or nom de guerre name was (Mahmoud Yazidi).
In 1974 he left the military and joined directly in the glorious September revolution led by the immortal Mulla Mustafa Barzani, and after the martyr became a member of the Peshmerga, the criminal Ba'athist government monitored his house in Baadra and arrested his father, Elias Silo, and put him in Mosul prison, and he was subjected to various types of torture at the hands of the regime's treacherous Cemetery Baathist.
After the setback in Algeria, that is, the treacherous agreement between the Iraqi government and the Shah of Iran, Muhammad Reza Pahlavi, in Algeria in 1974 in order to eliminate the Kurdish movement, Mahmoud Yazidi immigrated with his family to Iran, and from there he went with some of his companions, the cadres of the Parti party to Syria and then to Turkey in order to organize a leadership Temporary and then returned to Iraqi Kurdistan to form secret cells at the beginning of March 1976.
The martyr Mahmoud Ezidi became responsible for the Shekhan local committee secretly by the decision of the political bureau of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, and he was able to reorganize the party through some of the old cadres of the party and he toured the villages and towns of the Badinan region and the expansion of party cells, and the martyr Mahmoud Ezidi had a great role in fighting the Baathist regime and introduced terror In their hearts, he shook their strongholds, and his reputation spread, and his name was on their tongues, and he had several identities and borrowed documents, and he participated with his Peshmerga companions in many battles against the Iraqi army and against mercenaries, and he was wounded several times, the last of which was in his right hand, and he lit the fire of Newroz in the high peaks in the mountains of Kurdistan, especially Mount Kara ,
And he was given several nicknames, including (Asad Baadhra and Fahd Jabal Kara) and others.
After the enemy entity shook the Baathist regime, the Baathist government exiled his family, along with his brother Hussein, to Diwaniyah Governorate, and then to Wasit Governorate in southern Iraq.
This fighter was subjected to several assassination attempts, and the Baathist government decided to get rid of Mahmoud Yazidi through some mercenaries and spies of the Baathist regime in the years 1976_1977_1978_and finally in 1979.
On the night of August 19, 1979, the martyr Mahmoud Yazidi became a victim of treachery and betrayal when he was with a group of his Peshmerga comrades, including the fighter Selo Khader and others, in the village of (Rdinia) in the house of Muhammad Shino Muhammad Amin, and after they slept in the shed of the aforementioned house, a Kurdish mercenary and agent of the Baath He is the criminal, Muhammad Salih Kokhi, who was shot, and the fighter Mahmoud Yazidi was wounded with three bullets, and Slow Khadr and Muhammad Sheno, the owner of the house, were wounded with one bullet, and this led to the martyrdom of the fighter Mahmoud Yazidi, and thus ended the life of this fighter, full of heroism and adventures, at the hands of a dirty mercenary.
Mahmoud Yazidi (Hashem Elias Silo) was married to Yesh Khadida Ali Usi, and she bore him children: Mahmoud, Masoud, Saeed and Fouad.
In the spring of 1991, and based on the desire of his family, his pure body was transferred to the Lalish Temple with great ceremonies and in the presence of a large number of party and administrative officials and a large audience, where he was buried in his final resting place in the Lalish Temple.
In 2002, the Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraq opened a school in Baadra, named Mahmoud Yazidi, and selected his eldest son, Mahmoud, as a member of the political bureau of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.
The Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraq also erected a statue of him in 2011 at the intersection of Sheikhan district, thanking him in commemoration of his outstanding heroism.
Source: Saeed Khedida Alou and Qader Hassan Eido , translated from Arabic to English by Vazhan Kshto . [1]