Jamal Ali Rashid, known as Jamali Mala Ali, was born on April 10, 1950, in the village of Welesmet at the foot of Mount Surên, belonging to the Sayidsadiq district. He was a villager and worked as a farmer. He studied up to the primary level. After the collapse of the Aylul Revolution, he became a refugee in the Country of Iran and settled in the city of Marivan.
In Year 1964, he became a cadre of the Surên organization, belonging to the Regional Committee of Darbandikhan of the Fourth Branch of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, at which time Ali Shaways was the head of the organization. On April 1, 1976, he became a Peshmerga in the Surên Force of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, at which time Mala Omar Bani Banok was the Force Commander.
He participated in the battles of Shiramar in Year 1979, the battle of Rishên in Year 1980, the battle of Besalmin in Year 1980, the battle of Qaladize in Year 1981, and carried out guerrilla activity in the Sharazur Plain, the most prominent of which was burning the Sayidsadiq police station with an RPG in Year 1979.
Jamali Mala Ali was wounded twice in his Peshmerga life. In Year 1979, in the battle of Shiramar, which was a confrontation with the Military of the Ba'ath regime, he was severely wounded when several pieces of long-range artillery shrapnel hit his face. In Year 1981, in the battle of Qaladize, which was also a confrontation with the Ba'ath military, a bullet hit his left shoulder, and he was wounded for the second time in his Peshmerga life.
At the end of Year 1976, he received the rank of Platoon Commander, and at the beginning of Year 1981, he received the rank of Commander of the Fifth Battalion of the Surên Force, and in June 1981, he received the rank of Commander of the Surên Force of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.
On August 20, 1981, Jamali Mala Ali and a detachment of several comrades headed from the Siamêwê Headquarters at the foot of Surên to the Sharazur Plain for reconnaissance and to carry out several guerrilla activities in the Sharazur Plain. However, on August 23, 1981, in the village of Nawgardan in the Sharazur Plain, they fell into an ambush by a PUK force, and after their confrontation, Jamal Jamali Mala Ali and several comrades named Jabar Muhammad Sharif, Ahmad Banishari, Jabari Haji Sharif, and Salih Khala were martyred.
Source:- Archive of the Encyclopedia Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.