Iskandar Ali Raza Omar He was born in 1954 in the village of Ashokan, located in the Beranati region of Erbil Governorate. He was a villager and was engaged in farming. After the collapse of the Aylul Revolution his entire family was displaced to the Country of Iran and they did not have the opportunity to return until 1991 and they resided in the town of Khane. Martyr Iskandar Ali was the owner of five martyred brothers named Martyr Akram Ali Raza in 1974, Martyr Farhad Ali Raza in 1983, Martyr Talat Ali Raza in 1988, Martyr Fatah Ali Raza in 1988 and Martyr Razaq Ali Raza in 1988. He was married and his wife's name was Sariya Mamand Lashkari and he had one son and two daughters named Kamal, Najiba and Ghariba.
Struggle RecordMartyr Iskandar Ali became a Peshmerga in 1969 in the platoon of his father Ali Raza in Haji Omaran. This platoon was established in 1961 and they had a direct relationship with the Barzani Headquarters and their Headquarters were in the Barzan and Haji Omaran regions. In 1974 he was wounded due to the bombing by the then-regime's aircraft of Iraq in the Galala region.
After the collapse of the Aylul Revolution and their displacement in the Country of Iran, Martyr Iskandar Ali and his family did not lay down their arms and continued their armed struggle. After holding the 9th Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in 1979 and the establishment of the Second Branch of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, the platoon of Ali Raza, which Martyr Farhad Ali was the platoon leader of, became a partisan unit of the Second Branch of the Kurdistan Democratic Party and Martyr Iskandar Ali continued his struggle there.
In the month of 6 of 1982, Iskandar Ali and a group of his Comrades wanted to go to the Qaraj and Kendinawa plains to carry out a partisan Activity, but when they reached near the village of Qoritani in Erbil Governorate, they fell into an ambush by the Military and Jash of the Ba'ath regime and confronted them. After a two-hour confrontation, Iskandar Ali and a part of his Comrades were captured while wounded and were transferred to the city of Baghdad and the Baghdad Revolutionary Court issued the sentence of Military execution by firing squad for Iskandar Ali and a brother of his named Farhad Ali Raza and a cousin named Ismail Awla Hamad. On the date of 1 of January 1983 their execution order was carried out and all three of them became Martyrs.
Source:Archive of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Encyclopedia Board.