Qadir Abdulkarim Almas, known as Qalay Mainjan, was born in 1913 in the village of Nawsu in Eastern Kurdistan. In his youth, he headed to the Hawraman region and became a worker and resident in the village of Balkha, affiliated with the Byara sub-district of Halabja Governorate.
He was married to a woman named Qathan Murad and had three sons and two daughters. One son, Raza Qadir, was martyred in 1969 during the Aylul Revolution, and both his daughters, named Suada and Tuba, were killed in the chemical bombardment of the city of Halabja.
In 1961, he became a Peshmerga in the Hawraman Brigade. He was one of the early Peshmerga of the Hawraman Brigade in the Aylul Revolution, and the Hawraman Brigade became the first armed brigade in the Hawraman region to join the revolution, and they were affiliated with the Khabat Battalion of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.
In 1963, as a result of the shelling of the Peshmerga positions by the Iraqi Army, Martyr Qadir and two of his comrades named Qala Sur and Ghafur Ahmad were wounded, but due to the severity of his wound, Qadir Abdulkarim was martyred.
Source:- Archive of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Encyclopedia Board.