Biography

Martyr Yasin Hamad Amin Hassan Awla was born in 1957 in Hermk, located in the Betwata region. He was a resident of the Setaqan neighborhood in Erbil and studied up to the fifth grade of high school.

Struggle Record

Martyr Yasin Hamad Amin Hassan Awla joined the ranks of the Kurdistan Students Union in 1973. During his high school years, he was busy with organizational work for the Kurdistan Students Union at his school in Erbil, with the help of a classmate named Yusuf, known as Hakim Yusuf, as well as six teachers at their school who had a relationship with the organizations of the Kurdistan Democratic Party and had.

In 1974, a security force of the Ba'ath regime in Erbil surrounded their school and arrested all six teachers. At the time of the teachers' arrest, news reached Yasin and Yusuf that they were also on the wanted list, so they left the city immediately and joined the Peshmerga forces. All six teachers were executed by the Erbil Security.

Martyr Yasin reached Haji Omaran and joined the Erbil Plain force of the Kurdistan Democratic Party and became a Peshmerga. In the same year, by the decision of Faris Bawa, Yasin and two comrades returned to Erbil to carry out a secret activity. After completing their activity, they wanted to go to the Setaqan neighborhood to take some supplies from their homes and deliver a message from Faris Bawa to someone close to Faris Bawa. However, when they approached the neighborhood, they fell into an ambush by the regime's soldiers. After a confrontation, two of Martyr Yasin's comrades were martyred by the regime's soldiers, and Yasin himself escaped the ambush and returned to the mountains.

After returning from the activity, he was transferred to the artillery department and continued his Peshmerga struggle under Muhammad Shawqi, and was made a user of long-range weapons of the cannon type. 

In 1974, at the Omar Agha gorge, during a confrontation and repelling an attack by the Ba'ath regime's soldiers, he was hit by bullets and was martyred.

Source:

Archive of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Encyclopedia Board.