- Warya is the son of Mullah Rauf Sa'atchi, a native of Sulaymaniyah whose family have lived in Baghdad for many years.
- Mr. Warya was born in 1946 in Baghdad and grew up in a Kurdish family. He completed his primary, secondary and university education in Baghdad. He graduated from the English Department of the College of Arts at Mustansiriyah University in Baghdad. He studied at the American University in Vienna and received a master's degree in political science.
- He joined the Kurdish struggle since his youth. He was arrested by the repressive agencies of the then Baghdad regime in the late 1960s. He was released after the March 1970 agreement.
- He was one of the leading cadres of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. After the collapse of the September Kurdistan Revolution led by the late Barzani, he was one of the leading cadres of the interim leadership of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PDK). He then became a member of the Political Bureau of the People's Party led by martyr Sami Abdurrahman.
- He was a Peshmerga in the mountains of Kurdistan for many years. In recent years, he joined the Patriotic Union Kurdistan National (PUK) with a group of friends and was a member of the central supervisory committee of the PUK until he left the struggle as a result of a serious illness.
- Mr. Warya had a strong friendly relationship with the comrades of the Iraqi Communist Party and then with the comrades of the Kurdistan Communist Party during most of his life and struggle, especially during the years when he was a Peshmerga in the Kurdistan mountains. He was a leftist and progressive fighter in the ranks of the Kurdistan people's liberation movement.
Mr. Warya Sa'atchi was a fearless, loyal, intellectual and honest man. He was always with the unity of Kurdistan's patriotic parties and forces. All his friends in Kurdistan and abroad prove this fact.[1]