Martyr Umar Ibrahim, who is known as Umar-e Gawra, was born in 1946 in the village of Chalawera, affiliated with the Dibaga sub-district of Erbil Governorate. He was a resident of Erbil Governorate, had a primary level of education, and was employed at the water department on the Saydawa bridge in Erbil Governorate. In 1979, he was a political prisoner in Abu Ghraib prison for nine months. Umar Ibrahim was married; his wife's name is Kishkhan Ali, and he had three sons and three daughters named Faris, Kosrat, Aso, Khalida, Majida, and Sajida.
Struggle RecordUmar Ibrahim joined the organizations of Branch Two in 1979 of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, but due to an activity in May 1979, he was arrested by the Erbil Security and transferred to Abu Ghraib prison.
After his release, Umar Ibrahim tried to reach the Peshmerga of the Kurdistan Democratic Party , but he was returned to Erbil Governorate by the security of Shaqlawa district. Therefore, he headed to the Koya plain and in July 1980 became a Peshmerga in the force of Khala Sayid Kaka. In 1981, in the Samaquli valley, he was wounded in an ambush by the military and the Jash of the Ba'ath regime.
In October 1981, he received the rank of partisan platoon commander, and in 1982, he received the rank of battalion commander.
In 1983, a group of partisan Peshmerga were between the village of Samaqa and Bayzagha of the Koya plain when they fell into an ambush by the forces of the (PUK), and Umar-e Gawra and a comrade named Khala Abbas were martyred.
Source:Archive of the Encyclopedia Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.