Martyr Khalid Azam Tofiq Abdulqadir was born in 1960 in the village of Berweni, in the Bemo district of Halabja province. He grew up in the countryside and studied until primary school.

In 1976, he became a Peshmerga in the Martyr Aziz Tofiq Abdulqadir Brigade, which was led by Qadir Heme Salih, the Battalion Commander. In 1978, between the villages of Sêle and Pişte in the Bemo district, they fell into a military ambush by the then Iraqi regime, and Khalîd Azem Tofiq was seriously injured.

On September 10, 1982, Khalid Azem Tofiq and a detachment of his comrades under the command of Aziz Tofiq Abdulqadir, after returning from a partisan action in the city of Halabja, in the village of Gurga Mountain in the Tawgozi area of ​​​​the province of Halabja, a large force of Ba'ath regime troops and soldiers surrounded their village and a battle broke out between them. After a confrontation lasting several hours and due to the decrease in the number of Peshmerga and the increase in the number of regime soldiers and troops, Khalid Azem Tofiq and his commander, Aziz Tofiq Abdulqadir, who was his uncle, were wounded and captured by the soldiers. Then, on the order of the Iraqi General Intelligence, they were shot at the Gurga Mountain Pass that night, September 10, 1982, and they were martyred.

Source:

1. Encyclopedia archive of the Kurdistan Democratic Party