Martyr Kawa Abdullah Shakir was born in 1963 in the Bafri Qandil neighborhood of Koya District, affiliated with Erbil Governorate. He was a resident of Koya city, a graduate of the scientific branch of high school, and the son of a martyr.
Martyr Kawa Abdullah, in 1980, while in high school in Koya city, joined the secret organizations of the Kurdistan Democratic Party and became a cadre in the secret 'Agir' cell affiliated with the Koya District Committee of Branch Two. During that period, together with his sister, teacher Payman, who were both cadres of the same cell, they played a good role in gathering information about the Ba'ath regime's military and the activities that were against the Kurdistan Democratic Party .
In 1984, as a result of being exposed, he left Koya city and headed to the Country of Iran, where he became a Peshmerga in the Koya Force affiliated with the Military Department of the Koya District Committee of Branch Two of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. Their headquarters were inside Iranian territory, and their defensive positions were on the border between Iraq and Iran.
In March 1985, a large force of soldiers and Jash of the Ba'ath regime attacked the defensive positions of the Peshmerga forces in the surroundings of Haji Omaran. As a result of that attack, Kawa Abdullah was martyred, and his body fell into the hands of the Ba'ath regime's Jash, who took his body. He is one of the martyrs whose grave is unknown.
Source:1- Archive of the Encyclopedia Board of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.