Martyr Derwish Hasan Shiwan Mustafa was born in 1927 in Bolê village, belonging to Sidekan district in Erbil Governorate. He was a villager, worked in agriculture, was uneducated, and was a tailor.
In 1961, he joined the September Revolution and became a squad leader in the Haji Beroxi Battalion, belonging to the Balek Force. He participated in the battles of Hindirên, Zozik, and Gorez. In 1966, he and his brother Hamid Shiwan Mustafa, who was also a Peshmerga, were martyred by artillery shelling from the Iraqi regime's army, together with a group of their comrades, at the Omer Agha Gorge in the Diyana district of Erbil Governorate.
1. Archive of the Encyclopedia of the Kurdistan Democratic Party