Hemid Karim was born in 1947 in Mahmoud Qajari village, affiliated with Qoretû district in the Germiyan region. He was a villager engaged in animal husbandry and completed middle school. He was married to Remziya Mahmoud and had a son and daughter named Meriwan and Pexshan.
In 1962 he joined the September Revolution and became a Peshmerga in the sixth company of the seventh Biyara Battalion of the Khabat Forces of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. At that time, Suleiman Etroshi was company commander and Jamal Namiq was battalion commander. In 1966 he received the rank of Serpel from the same company.
Hemid Karim was wounded 2 times during his Peshmerga service. In 1965, at Ban Gameshan near Quratû district, a bullet struck his right shoulder in a clash with the Iraqi forces of that time. In 1974, at the Bemo Mountain Defense battle site, shelling by the Iraqi government of that time against Peshmerga positions drove several fragments into his body, wounding him for a second time.
In 1975, while defending Bemo Mountain, a bullet from Iraqi Army soldiers struck him and he was martyred. At the same time, two other comrades named Yarweli and Saifullah were martyred with him. Their bodies were later transferred to Iran by Mela Aziz and handed over to their families at Enzile camp.
Source:
- Archive of the Encyclopedia Board of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.