Martyr Omer Ali Tahir was born in 1965 in Beleban village, in the Shalxeya plain of Koy Sanjaq district, Erbil Governorate. He was a villager engaged in animal husbandry. Omer Ali was married; his wife's name was Gewher Hemed Salih, and they had one daughter named Shahida. Because their village was destroyed and its people forcibly displaced by the Ba'ath regime in 1987, Omer Ali became a refugee in Erbil and settled in Binaslawa.
In 1991, during the popular uprising of the people of Kurdistan against the Ba'ath regime, Martyr Omer Ali became a Peshmerga in the Sayid Qadir Battalion, which belonged to the Erbil Plain Force.
Omer Tahir participated in liberating Koy Sanjaq district and plain, Shaqlawa district, Kore subdistrict, and Erbil Governorate during the 1991 popular uprising.
On 11 March 1991, during the liberation of Erbil Governorate, Omer Tahir was struck by a bullet near the governorate headquarters and was martyred.
Source:
1. Archive of the Encyclopedia Department of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.