Martyr Omar Karim Qadir Hama Amin, also known as martyr Shamal, was born in 1965 in Derbandikhan district of Sulaimani province. He was a resident of Derbandikhan town. He completed his primary and secondary school in Derbandikhan.
In 1983, he became a Peshmerga in the Tagozi battalion of the Sirwan force of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP). At that time, Aziz Hamasaleh Tagozi was the commander of the battalion and Jalal Lawrani was the commander of the Sirwan force.
In 1983, in the village of Jardasna in the district of Sharazoor, near the Sirwan River, Omar Karim and his comrades were ambushed by a PUK force and confronted them. As a result, Omar Karim (Martyr Shamal) was shot and martyred.