Martyr Hemed Ismail Mirad was born in 1949 in the village of Serdre in the Khaneqah Valley, belonging to the Rawanduz district of Erbil Governorate. He was a villager engaged in farming, was illiterate, and had not married.
In 1966, he joined the Peshmerga forces and became a Peshmerga in the 4th Battalion of the Balek force. He took part in the battles of Hindren and Korek and in the Rawanduz area. In 1975, he was killed in the village of Serdre in the Khaneqah Valley by bombing from the Iraqi regime's warplanes.
1. Archive of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Encyclopedia