Osman Karim, known as (Osa Rash Kamalani), was born in 1935 in the village of Kamalani, affiliated with the Arbat sub-district of Sulaymaniyah Governorate. He was a villager engaged in farming and animal husbandry. He completed primary school, was married, and had three sons and one daughter.
Osman Karim joined the Peshmerga forces on August 15, Year 1965, Aylul Revolution and became a Peshmerga in the platoon of Hussein Faris, affiliated with the 9th Battalion of the Martyr Dilshad, under the command of Martyr Fatah Agha, affiliated with the Khabat Force of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.
In 1969, Osman Karim and several of his comrades went to the city of Sulaymaniyah to carry out a partisan activity in the Chwarbakh neighborhood. After completing their mission, they encountered a fierce confrontation with a force of the Iraqi Army, and as a result, Osman Karim was martyred and one of his comrades named Omara Zard was severely wounded.
Source:1- Archive of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Encyclopedia Board.