Martyr Rizgar Arif Abdullah Fathullah, Known as Rizgare Sur, was born in 1966 in the Sayidsadiq district. He studied up to the middle school level. In 1975, after the collapse of the Aylul Revolution he and his family became refugees in the Country of Iran and settled in the city of Marivan. Martyr Rizgar had a brother named Bakhtiar Arif who was martyred in 1988.
Struggle RecordMartyr Rizgar Arif Abdullah Fathullah became a Peshmerga in 1984 in the military section of the Surin area committee affiliated with the Fourth Branch of the Kurdistan Democratic Party At that time, his father Mullah Arif was the responsible of the area committee and Osman Chawrash Osman Balkhayi was the responsible of the military wing of the area committee. In 1985, he received the rank of Platoon Commander. On February 12, 1986, a group of Peshmerga were distributed inside the village of Chinara in the Sharazur plain. When the Iraqi Army learned of this news, they heavily shelled the village with artillery, and Rizgar Arif and several villagers were martyred.
Source:Archive of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Encyclopedia Board.