Biography

Khalid Hamza Qasim Muhammad was born in 1955 in the Tayrawa neighborhood of Erbil province. He was a city dweller and was engaged in trade in the Erbil market. His level of education was primary. After the collapse of the Aylul Revolution , he became a refugee in the country of Iran. In 1976, he returned to the land of Kurdistan and was deported by the then-regime of Iraq to southern Iraq. Khalid Hamza was married; his wife's name was Sabiha Sheikh Muhammad, and he had four daughters named Hataw, Chiman, Ayman, and Diman.

Struggle Record

Martyr Khalid Hamza became a Peshmerga in 1972 in the Kandeguli Battalion affiliated with the Hamrin Force of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, at which time Ali Miro Zarari was the battalion commander. With the resumption of the Aylul Revolution in 1974, he received the rank of squad leader and had an active participation in all the epics of the Hamrin Force.

After the displacement and deportation of Martyr Khalid Hamza, in 1980 he re-established contact with Uncle Sayid Kaka, and in 1981 he became the person responsible for the secret cell inside the city of Erbil. In 1983, a large security force of Erbil surrounded his house, and Martyr Khalid Hamza confronted the force. After several hours of confrontation, he was severely wounded and, while wounded, managed to escape from the Ba'ath force, as his wound was in his abdomen and intestines. For treatment, he headed to the Shaqlawa district and stayed for six months to receive treatment.

In 1984, he received the rank of detachment commander affiliated with the force of Uncle Sayid Kaka , and he returned to the city of Erbil several times for political and armed activity. On February 4, 1985, Martyr Khalid Hamza and two comrades went into the city of Erbil for an activity and were exposed. In the evening of the same day, Martyr Khalid Hamza fell into an ambush by the soldiers of the Ba'ath regime on Surchian Street and was arrested. After eight months of imprisonment, on October 10, 1985, he was executed in Abu Ghraib prison along with a comrade named Isa Dosara and was martyred. 

Source:

Archive of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Encyclopedia Board.