Asad Wisyan Ghafur was born in 1972 in the city of Halabja. He studied up to the fourth grade of high school. In 1989, he was arrested by the Ba'ath General Security in the city of Sulaymaniyah and was imprisoned for one year and four months, and a death sentence was issued against him. However, due to the uprising of the Shiites in the cities of Najaf and Karbala, he escaped from prison in 1991.
In 1983, he went to the village of Ahmadawa to become a Peshmerga, but due to his young age, he was not accepted by the commanders of the Peshmerga forces. In 1983, after returning from the mountains, he directly joined the secret cells of the Kurdistan Democratic Party and became a cadre in the cell of Hawraman Osman, who was the responsible for the organization affiliated with the Halabja Regional Committee of the 4th Branch of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. He was an intellectual and active cadre and supervised a group of activities.
In October 1989, Asad Wisyan Ghafur went to the village of Bainjan near the city of Sulaymaniyah to hold a meeting with the secret cells of that region, but one of the participants in the meeting was a Traitor and revealed the time and place of the meeting. Because of this, Asad was surrounded inside the village by soldiers and intelligence cadres of the Ba'ath regime and was arrested. He was transferred to the large prison in the city of Sulaymaniyah, and after nine months of imprisonment, he was sent to the Northern Organization in Kirkuk. There, a death sentence was issued against him. To carry out the decision of the Iraqi Revolutionary Court, Asad was transferred to the Najaf prison, but due to the uprising of the people of Najaf and the deterioration of the security situation in the city, Asad Wisyan Ghafur found an opportunity and escaped from prison. He was a Peshmerga of the popular uprising of the people of Kurdistan.
On March 7, 1991, during the recapture of the Bainjan police station, a bullet hit his leg and he was wounded. After receiving the necessary treatment, he decided not to rest and to participate in the wave of the uprising.
On March 8, 1991, during the liberation of the city of Sulaymaniyah, at the Amna Suraka of the city of Sulaymaniyah, he fell into a military ambush by the Ba'ath regime. Initially, he was severely wounded by a hand grenade in front of the gate of the Amna Suraka. After getting up and continuing to attack inside the Amna Suraka, he was shot from several sides at the gate of the Headquarters and was martyred. Due to the large number of bullet impacts, his entire body was disfigured.
Source:Archive of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Encyclopedia Board