Martyr Cemal Qadir Amin, known as Sheikh Cemal of Chewtan, was born in 1942 in Chutani village in the Nalparez area. He was a villager and completed primary school and religious studies at the madrasas in Nalparez and Penjwin. He became responsible for transporting and supplying the Erbet area. Sheikh Cemal of Chewtan married Nefiya Qadir and had a son and three daughters named Masoud, Samira, Minira, and Kalsum.
In 1962 he became a Peshmerga at the Sharifi Haji Mela sector belonging to the Khabat Battalion of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. He participated in the Pirdi Zelm operation and the battles of Penjwin, Wilesimt, Qelbeze, Kani Bozey Tazede, Dole Sur, Nalparez, Pirdi Kelwez (no one survived), Seyid Sadiq, Darbandikhan, Ahmed Awa, Kani Sef, Xurmal, and Mount Shinirwe. He was wounded in both the Wilesimt and Qelbeze battles in 1963 and in the Dulesur battle in 1967.
In 1964 he received the rank of Serpeli; in 1968 he became responsible for the Military Affairs of Sharifi Haji Mela sector; and in 1970 he received the rank of platoon commander in the 7th Border Guards force. In 1974 he received the rank of Second Head of Branch in the Bemo Battalion of the Khabat force of the Kurdistan Democratic Party; at that time Heme Suri Husein was the battalion commander.
On 4 June 1974, Sheikh Cemal of Chewtan and a group of his comrades set an ambush on the road between Sulaymaniyah and Erbet for a military convoy of the Iraqi regime of that time, which had planned to attack Darbandikhan district. After the confrontation began, Sheikh Cemal of Chewtan and several comrades, including Kemal Hawari, Ali Mizelli, and Fattah Sur, were martyred there.
1. Archive of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Encyclopedia Board