Haji Ramazan Muhammad Ali, known as (Haji Khanjar), was born in 1952 in the village of Shekafti, affiliated with the Amadiya district. His grandfather, Muhammad Ali, participated in the revolution and uprisings of that time against the occupiers alongside the army of the Martyr Sheikh Abdulsalam and was martyred. In 1965, at a young age, he joined the Peshmerga Forces of the Aylul Revolution along with the Heso Zhazhuki force until 1967, and in that year he was transferred to the Sheikhan force with Ahmed Mirxan Agha. In 1969, he participated in the Battle of Alele, where he was wounded. In 1972, he became deputy commander of a platoon in the Sheikhan force. In 1974, he participated in the Battle of Gero Omar Agha. In 1975, after the collapse of the Aylul Revolution he became a refugee in the country of Turkey. In 1976, he joined the provisional leadership of the Kurdistan Democratic Party and went to Salimi Qiyada (Jawhar Namiq Salim) and Karim Shingali and became responsible for the main cell within the Peshmerga Forces of the Gulan Revolution, and in the same year, he participated in the Battle of Bakhire and was lightly wounded in that battle. He is one of the Peshmerga who participated in the battle for the survival of the Party in Hakkari and Geli Baze and other battles of the year 1978, and he was wounded in the Battle of Geli Baze in Hakkari.

In 1979, he became a refugee in the country of Iran and was given the rank of company commander in the force of Abdullah Qado Muhammad Zebari, which at that time had the task of protecting the Political Bureau and President Masoud Barzani and was responsible for it. On the 19 of November 1980, he participated in the first Battle of Haji Omaran. In 1981, he returned to the liberated areas of South Kurdistan and participated in the battles of Bakurman, Sharman, Shosh, and the top of Mount Gara. In the year 198, he participated in the great Battle of Mergasor, the Battle of Siana Gara, and the Battle of Bamerne. In 1988, he was in the fourteen-person group of the Akre District Committee force that remained in the area during the Anfal process, and after three months, they were able to escape the military siege of the Iraq army, mercenaries, and Jash.

With the start of the Iraq liberation process and the first Gulf War, which is known as Desert Storm, he returned to the area and participated in the uprising of the Akre area and participated in the battles of Akre, Bardarash, Kanilan, Dubardan, and the Bashiq sub-district. In 1991, he became responsible for organization, and in the Maqlub force, where Abdullah Qado was the force commander, he became a battalion commander. In 1996, in the middle of the internal war of the PUK against the Party (1994 - 1998), he became the head of the military section of the Akre District Committee. In 1997, he became a member of the military section of the Ninth Branch of the Party. In the year 2002, by the order of President Barzani, he was made a member of the High Aylul Institution in Duhok Governorate. In 2004, with the establishment of the Aylul Institution in Akre, he became the deputy head of that institution. Throughout his life, he was wounded five times. At the fourteenth Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party on the 3 of November 2022 in the city of Duhok, because of the service and struggle he had performed for the sake of the liberation of the Kurd and Kurdistan and the holy path of Barzani, by President Masoud Barzani he was awarded the Barzani Medal.

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1 - Archive of the Encyclopedia Board of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.