Martyr Muhammad Awla was born in 1942 in the village of Siqojan, affiliated with the Dibaga sub-district of the Kandinawa region in Makhmur district. He was a villager and was occupied with farming. He was married and had four sons and four daughters. After the martyrdom of Muhammad Awla, his family was arrested by the then-regime of Iraq and transferred to the city of Ramadi and settled in the Haditha district. In 1980, they were able to return to Kurdistan.
In 1968, he joined the Peshmerga forces of the Aylul Revolution and became a Peshmerga in the Second Battalion of the Erbil Plain Force of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, under the command of Sergeant Osman. He participated in both battles of the village of Shiwayi Gchka and Shiwayi Gawra, and he also participated in the activity at the customs of Erbil city.
In April 1974, Muhammad Awla and his comrades faced an attack by the then-Iraqi Army in a defensive position in the cave of the village of Banaslawa the Small. After a long confrontation, Muhammad Awla and Fakhir Saydawayi were captured wounded by the then-Iraqi military and were arrested. They were first transferred to the city of Erbil and were imprisoned in the prisons of Erbil for three months. Later, they were transferred to the city of Mosul, and after two months of imprisonment in the detention center of Mosul city, in late July 1974, a military death sentence was issued against them, and they were executed and were martyred.
Source:1-Archive of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Encyclopedia Board.