Omar Sofi Mustafa, who was known as Kaka Dababa and Kaki Kakan among his comrades, was born in 1924 in Koya, where he completed his primary and secondary education. He then went to Kirkuk, where he became a member of the Hiwa Party and then a member of the Association of Revival of Kurdistan, which was based in Mahabad. Mr. Dababa was a brave, loyal, and enlightened man and was an unprecedented caretaker of his friends and comrades. Therefore, he was nicknamed Kaki Kakan (Mister of misters). Mr. Dababa was a brave, loyal, and enlightened son and was an unprecedented caretaker of his friends and comrades. He was brave and patient in his Kurdish life and was always at the forefront of the struggle and the role of his important and secret works.
He became an active member of the Iraqi Kurdish Democratic Party (KDP) in the establishment of the party. In the demonstrations of December 1948, when he was in the third year of the Baghdad Law College, he was the hero of the demonstrators. They wounded him once, but his injury was slight. He was arrested in the December 1949 demonstration and sentenced to one year in Kut prison. After completing his prison term, he returned to the law school and graduated in 1951-1952 and became a lawyer.
In the third congress of the PDK held secretly in Kirkuk in December 1953, he was elected as a member of the central committee of the party.
After the July 14, 1958, revolution, he was in charge of the PDK organizations in Kirkuk and the activist of the democratic organizations of workers, youth, students, and women.
He tried to serve the Barzani families who were displaced or oppressed in prisons, thus earning the love of the lord of Barzani, Sheikh Ahmad Barzani, who was a guest at the house of Mr. Dababa after his release from prison in Kirkuk.
He was arrested in early 1961, but managed to escape from prison and started the secret struggle and then the armed struggle, which played an important role in the September Revolution and became the head of the Kurdistan Peshmerga forces in Erbil province. Until the end of the September Revolution, Mr. Dababa was a brave hero of the revolution and the hero of most of its stories.
In 1969, he became the owner of the newspaper (Al-Noor) and visited some countries such as the Democratic Republic of Germany, Egypt, Sudan, etc. After the collapse of the September Revolution, he went to Iran and soon returned to Iraq.
In the outbreak of the new revolution of our people, he went to the mountains and played an important role in the creation of the Kurdistan Socialist Movement.
He was a member of the PUK Political Bureau and lived in the mountains, but was allowed to go to Europe to continue his political struggle due to heart disease. He played a significant role in the PDK and the Kurdistan Front.
He was dominant in the preparations for the first congress of the PUK, but suffered a heart attack in the congress hall on #29-12-1992# and died.[1]