Awat Ali Muhammad Aziz, known as Awat Zalmi, was born in 1955 in the village of Zalmi, affiliated with the Khurmal sub-district. He was a villager and completed his primary education in Zalm. For his middle school education, he went to the Khurmal sub-district. Awat Zalmi and his family, after the collapse of the Aylul Revolution They became refugees in the Country of Iran and resided in Khorramabad, affiliated with Karaj province. He was martyred in 1981.
Struggle HistoryMartyr Awat Zalmi became a Peshmerga in 1980 in the Yusuf Zalmi Battalion, which was affiliated with the Surin Force of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. At that time, Mullah Omar Bani Banok was the Force Commander. Awat Zalmi became the operator of the radio device (BRC7) of the battalion. He participated in the 1980 Battle of Dalan and Shiremar, and the 1981 Battle of Sharam Mountain and the Battle of Razala and Parazan. In the Battle of Shiremar in 1980, as a result of the Ba'ath regime's shelling of the Peshmerga positions, a piece of shrapnel from a shell hit his left arm, and he was wounded.
In 1981, he received the rank of Commander of the Second Sector of the battalion. On September 16, 1981, in the Battle of Razala and Parazan near the Nalparez sub-district, affiliated with the Penjwen district, which faced an attack by a Kurdish mercenary party in coordination with the Ba'ath regime's army against the Peshmerga force's position, Awat Zalmi was hit by bullets and was martyred. Also, along with him, several of his comrades named Omar Sabir Saeed, Aziz Hilampai, Fazil Hama Karim Rahman, Abdulrahman Basharati, Hama Sharif Fatah, Abu Bakr Abdullah Hama Saeed, and Namiq were martyred in that position.
Source:Archive of the Encyclopedia Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.