Martyr Khidr Ali Khidr, known as Khidr Haji Ali, was born in 1938 in the village of Hamza Kori, which belongs to the Qushtapa sub-district of Erbil Governorate. He was a villager and was engaged in farming. He studied up to the primary level, was married, and had two sons and three daughters. In 1975, after the collapse of the Aylul Revolution, he became a refugee in the Country of Iran and lived in the cities of Mahabad and Khane. After returning from the Country of Iran, he was sent to southern Iraq and lived in the Garma sub-district of the Ramadi district until he returned to the city of Erbil in Year 1979.
Khidr Haji Ali joined the Peshmerga Forces in Year 1966 Aylul Revolution and became a Peshmerga in the battalion of his brother, Ahmad Haji Ali, which was affiliated with the Erbil Plain force of the Kurdistan Democratic Party . He participated in the Battle of Bawaji and the Battle of Mount Safin.
In Year 1974, during the Battle of Bawaji, after the martyrdom of both his brothers, he was severely wounded by the shelling of the Iraqi Army artillery and was sent to the Country of Iran. He remained in the Tehran hospital for four months to receive treatment.
In Year 1979, he joined the Peshmerga Forces Gulan Revolution and became a Peshmerga in the Sayid Kaka force. In Year 1979, one month after becoming a Peshmerga, he and 17 comrades went to the villages surrounding Bestana and Kardz to carry out partisan Activity. In the village of Shiwa Piran, a military force and the Jash of the then-Iraqi regime surrounded them. The Peshmerga confronted the Iraqi Army, and Khidr Haji and his comrades were martyred.
Source:Archive of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Encyclopedia Board.