Martyr Qadir Abdulkarim Almas is known as Qalay Mayinjan, he was born in 1913 in Nawsu village in the east of Kurdistan. He moved to Hawraman area during his youth he found a job and became a resident of Balkha village of Biyara subdistrict of Halabja governorate.
He was married and his wife was named Qathan Murad, they had three sons and two daughters, and one of his sons Raza Qadir was martyred in the September revolution in 1969, and his two daughter (Suada and Tuba) were martyred in the chemical bombardment of Halabja.
In 1961, he became the Peshmerga of hawraman team; one of the first Peshmerga of hawraman team in the September revolution, hawraman team became the first armed team in Hawraman area who joined the revolution and belonged to the Kurdistan Democratic Party's Khabat Battalion.
In 1963, as a result of the bombardment of the Peshmerga fronts by the Iraqi army, Martyr Qadir and two of his companions, by the names of Qala-sur and Ghafur Ahmed, were injured, but Qadir Abdulkarim was martyred due to the severity of his injury.
Source:
- Kdp encyclopedia archive