Martyr Abdulqadir Ali, known as (Khuikha Abdulqadir Manmi), was born in 1907 in the village of Kanakawa-ye Shahid in the Sarchinar sub-district of the Dukan district of Sulaymaniyah province. He was a villager and engaged in farming and animal husbandry. He completed his studies in a religious school (hujra) and had a complete command of the Arabic language. He was married and had two wives, two sons, and three daughters.
In 1961, he joined the Peshmerga forces of the Aylul Revolution and, as a platoon leader, supervised the Peshmerga of his tribe within the Kurdistan Peshmerga forces. On September 11, 1961, Khuikha Abdulqadir Manmi and his platoon participated in the first military confrontation with the then-Iraqi military in the Bazian Pass.
On June 10, 1963, the Iraqi army, under the command of Zaim Sadiq in the city of Sulaymaniyah, sent a force to every village to confront the Peshmerga forces of the Kurdistan Democratic Party for the purpose of destroying the villages surrounding the city of Sulaymaniyah. Khuikha Abdulqadir Manmi and his platoon stood against Zaim Sadiq's force at the entrance of the village of Kanakawa. After several hours of confrontation, Khuikha Abdulqadir Manmi and a comrade named Darwish Talib were captured wounded by Zaim Sadiq's soldiers. The soldiers dragged them while wounded behind a tank until they reached the village of Kolwanan. In this way, Khuikha Abdulqadir Manmi and Darwish Talib were martyred. Their bodies were thrown in the village of Kolwanan. The people of the village of Kani Manm transferred their bodies and buried them in the Kani Manm cemetery.
Source:1- Archive of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Encyclopedia Board.