Martyr Anwar Jafar was born in 1967 in the Khanzad neighborhood of Erbil. In 1987, he was a student in the final year of the electrical department at the Industrial Institute in Erbil and did not complete his studies.
In 1984, during his first year at the institute, he joined the organizations of the Kurdistan Students Union and had an active participation in secret activities within the city of Erbil.
In 1986, along with several of his comrades, they provided guidance to a detachment of the Peshmerga forces of the Kurdistan Democratic Party to carry out an activity which consisted of killing the Governor of Erbil. Before carrying out the activity, they were exposed. Martyr Anwar escaped and joined the Peshmerga forces of the Gulan Revolution in Khnira in the Sidekan area.
In 1987, he returned secretly to the city of Erbil to carry out several guerrilla activities. The same year, after his return, in the village of Sisawa in the Harir sub-district of the Shaqlawa district, he fell into an ambush by the Iraqi Army and was arrested. Since then, there has been no trace of him, and he is one of the martyrs whose grave is unknown.
Source:1- Archive of the Encyclopedia Board of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.