Biography

Faris Hamad Bawa was born in the city of Erbil in 1933. In 1956, he was imprisoned, and in the Kirkuk prison, he learned to read and write at the hands of the great Kurdish poet Abdullah Goran and Abdullah Ismail Ahmed, known as Mala Motor a senior cadre of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. He passed away on March 21, 1995, in Pirmam. He was initially laid to rest in the Pirmam cemetery within the borders of Erbil Governorate, and later, on Monday, March 10, 1997, in a solemn ceremony, he was moved to the village of Pirdawd within the borders of Erbil Governorate and was reburied for the second time in the Pirdawd Hill cemetery - Erbil. He was proficient in the Kurdish, Arabic, and Persian languages.

Struggle Record

Faris Hamad Bawa was imprisoned in Kirkuk prison in 1956 and was released from prison after the July 14, 1958 coup. He joined the ranks of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the Year 1958. In the Year 1963, he joined the ranks of the Peshmerga forces, and in the same year, he became a platoon leader and participated in the Battle of Darkhurma in the borders of Erbil Governorate and the Battle of Qashqa village in the borders of Erbil Governorate against the National Guard forces (Al-Haras al-Qawmi). On March 18, 1963, as a Peshmerga commander, he was a representative of the Koya Congress (the First People's Congress) in the town of Koya in the borders of Erbil Governorate.

In June 1963, he participated in the Battle of Spilik in the borders of Erbil Governorate under the command of Staff Colonel Kafi Nabawi against the campaign of the Iraqi Second Division. In the Year 1964, he was appointed as a company commander in the Second Battalion of the Safin Force, affiliated with the Second Division. In the Year 1965, he was the commander of the First Battalion of the Erbil Plain in the Safin Force. In May 1965, as the commander of the First Battalion of the Erbil Plain, he participated in the epic of Mount Safin. On December 5, 1965, he participated in repelling the onslaught of the Iraqi Army and commanded the Six-Pronged Battle (Battle of Shargha) and was successful in this battle. In the Year 1966, he participated in the Battle of Safin as the commander of the Second Battalion of the Erbil Plain. In the Year 1968, he was appointed commander of the Erbil Plain Force.

In the Year 1968, in retaliation for the martyrdom of two Peshmerga in the epic of Shakhulan, he shelled an Iraqi Army camp in Erbil with artillery fire and destroyed the bases of the Ibrahim Ahmad - Jalal Talabani group inside the city of Erbil. On March 1, 1969, he was one of the commanders of the Baba Gurgur operation to strike the Kirkuk Oil Company. In August 1969, he faced the onslaught of the Iraqi Army's ground forces and the gunmen of the Ibrahim Ahmad - Jalal Talabani group who attacked the headquarters of the Erbil Plain Force, and he was able to repel them and force them to retreat in the battle. In the Year 1970, he was elected as a member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party by the representatives of the Eighth Congress. In the Year 1970, in the twelfth staff, he was appointed head of the Second Branch Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. After the March 11, 1970 agreement, he undertook the reconstruction of the Setaqan Martyrs' neighborhood for the martyrs of the Erbil Plain Force. On January 13, 1971, he was granted the temporary rank of Police Captain by the Chairman of the Iraqi Revolutionary Command Council. In the Year 1971, he was the commander of the Eleventh Battalion of the Gomaspan Pass of the Border Guards.

On Wednesday, June 21, 1972, at the Peace Palace near the town of Choman, affiliated with Erbil Governorate, accompanied by President Mustafa Barzani (1903-1979), he received a delegation of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany led by Paul Verner and discussed peace in Iraq and bilateral relations. In the Year 1974, he was the commander of the Safin Force. In the Year 1974, he was the commander of the Battle of Gire Rash. On September 6, 1974, he was among the commanders of the Battle of Makok in the borders of Erbil Governorate, in which the Peshmerga were able to defeat the Iraqi Army. In the Year 1975, after the collapse of the Aylul Revolution he headed to the Kingdom of Iran as a refugee. In the Year 1978, he returned to Southern Kurdistan, and on January 19, 1978, by an order of the Iraqi Revolutionary Command Council, he was granted an amnesty. In the Year 1991, he participated in the uprising of Southern Kurdistan. 

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