Martyr Mihemed Heme Kerîm Heme Sadiq Yusif was known as Hemeyê Sofî Kerîm and was born in 1955 in the village of Kanî Sêfî on the edge of the Surên mountain, belonging to the Xurmal sub-district. He was a villager and engaged in farming. He studied up to the primary level and after the defeat of the September Revolution, he migrated to Iran and settled in the city of Marivan. He was married, his wife's name was Eyna Heme Seîd, and he had four sons and three daughters named Kazim, Masud, Yadgar, Asad, Rahma, Rezana, and Fatima.

 

In 1986, he became a Peshmerga in the Surên force belonging to the Darbandikhan District Committee of the Fourth Branch of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. In 1987, the warplanes of the Ba'ath regime bombed the Peshmerga positions on the Surên mountain, and due to that bombardment, Hemeyê Sofî Kerîm was hit by several pieces of shrapnel in his defensive position and was severely wounded.

 

He participated in the popular uprising of the people of Kurdistan, and at the very beginning of the uprising in the Sharazur region, on March 7, 1991, during the capture of a military base in Qaynêce near Seyid Sadiq, he was shot and martyred.  

Source:

1. Archive of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Encyclopedia