Biography

He was born in Year 1963 in the village of Bakozi in the Zawita sub-district of Duhok Governorate, from a patriotic Kurdish family with martyrs, as 21 members of his family were martyred, such as his father, uncle, and cousins. Because of their nationalistic stances, his family, including his mother, father, and sisters, were imprisoned by the Ba'ath regime at the Aloka checkpoint. On November 26, 2017, as a Commander and the person responsible for the 17th Branch of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, he participated in the battle to defend the land of Kurdistan and was martyred in the famous epic of Sahila at the village of Kani Awez (Ain Owez) on the Zummar axis.

Struggle History

 From the beginning of his youth, at the age of 17 in Year 1980, he reached the ranks of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, and in the same year, he established a relationship with the Gulan Revolution with Sadiq Galnaski on the border of the Duhok Regional Committee. Because of his intelligence, activity, and heroism, in Year 1984, he became the commander of a Peshmerga armed group (Detachment Commander). In Year 1986, he became the deputy of the organization affiliated with the Duhok Regional Committee. In Year 1987, he became the deputy of the military organization affiliated with the Duhok Regional Committee until the black Anfal campaigns. In Year 1988, he became a refugee in the country of Turkey, but he was not prepared to hand over his weapon to the gendarmerie forces and the Turkish army, so he went with his weapon into the land of Northern Kurdistan (the country of Turkey) and was arrested by the Turkish military forces and imprisoned for a period, then he was released and went to Eastern Kurdistan (Iran) and became a refugee again. In Year 1991, with the uprising of the people of Kurdistan, he returned to Kurdistan and started working as the person responsible for the military organization and a member of the Duhok axis. In Year 1993, he became a member of the (Duhok Regional Committee). In Year 1994, he became the military person responsible for the Simel Regional Committee. In Year 1995, he became an administrator of the 9th Branch in Akre, and in Year 1997, he became the person responsible for the Brayati Regional Committee in Mangishke. In Year 2001, he became the person responsible for the Amidi Regional Committee, and in the same year, he was transferred to the responsibility of the 14th Army on the border of Hizawa, affiliated with the Zakho district. In Year 2004, he became the person responsible for the 2nd Army on Mount Skren. In Year 2006, he became the commander of the Sefin Command in Pirman. In Year 2014, he became the person responsible for the Mosul Dam axis, playing an effective role in the war against the ISIS terrorists. From Year (2015 until the day of his martyrdom on November 26, 2017), he was the person responsible for the 17th Branch of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in Sinjar. The Martyr leader and Commander Wahid Bakozi participated in a large number of epics. In Year 1981, he was wounded on the top of Duhok Mountain. In Year 1982, he was wounded in the village of Shawrike, and in the same year, he was wounded in the village of Qashafr. In Year (1986), he was wounded in the (Mangishke) battle, and in Year 1987, he was wounded at Gire Garmava. On November 26, 2017, in a fierce and difficult battle to defend the sacred land of Kurdistan and the experience of the region, as a Peshmerga Commander, he participated in that battle which is famous as the epic of Sahila against the attacking forces of the Iraq army and the Hashd al-Shaabi with the cooperation of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard in the village of Kani Awez (Ain Owez) on the Zummar axis in the northwest of Mosul, on November 26, 2017, Commander Wahid Bakozi was martyred. In a grand ceremony on August 16, 2018, His Excellency President Masoud Barzani awarded the Barzani medal to the son of the Martyr Commander Hoshang Wahid Bakozi because of the courage, heroism, and loyalty of the Martyr Wahid Bakozi and his family to the sacred path of Barzani and the sacred land of Kurdistan.

References:

1- Archive of the Encyclopedia Board of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.