Omar Karim was born in 1947 in the village of Gurgachiya, affiliated with the Arbat sub-district of the Sharazur Plain in Sulaymaniyah province. He was a villager and was engaged in animal husbandry and farming. He studied up to the primary level.
Omar Karim joined the Peshmerga Forces in 1966 Aylul Revolution and became a Peshmerga in the platoon of Ahmad Suria Wayli in the First Branch, under the command of Khalid Rabati, affiliated with the Fourth Battalion of Qaradagh, under the command of Lieutenant Tahir Sheikh Salih of the Qaradagh Force of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. In 1968, he participated in the Battle of Qaradagh; in that battle, Sheikh Hussein of Baghcha was martyred. In 1969, he participated in the Battle of Qamchugha and the Battle of Jasana.
On December 15, 1969, Omar Karim and a platoon of his comrades descended from the Qaradagh mountain to the Sharazur Plain to carry out a guerrilla activity in the Arbat sub-district. However, upon reaching the village of Besansor in the Sharazur Plain, they fell into an ambush by Iraqi soldiers, and Omar Karim was martyred. One of his comrades, named Salar Bahman, was seriously wounded. The body of the martyr Omar Karim was transferred by his comrades to the Sharbazher region and laid to rest in the cemetery of the village of Barzinja.
Source:1- Archive of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Encyclopedia Board.