Ghazi Mohammed Arif, also known as Ghazi Sheikh Mohammed Mir Sur, was born in 1957 in Mir Sur village of Khurmal district. He was a farmer and a villager. He completed his primary-level studies. He was relocated to Iran and made his home in Marivan after the Aylul Revolution failed.
In 1977, he became a Peshmerga in the Martyr Abubakr Bani Banoki’s Battalion, which belonged to the Suren force of the fourth branch of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP). Furthermore, he participated in the Iranian Democratic War, the Kaneskan War, and he was an activist in the Sharazoor plain. Then, in 1979 he received the rank of commander.
On October 8, 1981, he was ambushed by a PUK force in the village of Qayeri Marf in the plain of Sharazoor. Ghazi Mohammed Arif and two others, one of whom was his brother, Sabah Sheikh Mohammed and Jamal Bani Banuki, were martyred.
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