He is the spokesman of the Halabja Chemical Attack Victims Association.
His life in his own words:
My full name is Kamil Abdulqadir Wais Mohammed Khana. I was born on 01-07-1973 in Zamaqi Khawar village of Halabja township, Halabja province. I am called by several names: (Kamil Halabjayi, Kamil of the Chemical Attack Victims Association, Kamil of the Chemical Wounded, Living Martyr, and Symbol of the Chemical Wounded).
My father was born in 1923 in a village belonging to Maidan or Bawanur district (although his ID card says 1913). He was illiterate, a farmer. My mother (Jayran Abdulrahman Mohammed Mahmoud) was born in 1943 in Hassan village of Halabja.
Both of them were martyred by chemical weapons in Halabja along with my brother, five sisters and a niece.
I started my education in 1979 and successfully attended my village school until the sixth grade.
I studied until the third grade of Islamic Studies Secondary School in Halabja, but that year I could not pass that grade because of the chemical attack and displacement to Iran like thousands of other students in my city.
In the academic year 1988-1989, the Iraqi government punished us like thousands of others and did not allow me to continue my studies in any school in Sulaymaniyah province.
The following year, I was admitted to the Sulaymaniyah Islamic Studies Secondary School in the third grade of secondary school. That year, despite serious illness and the loss of my father, mother, brothers, sisters and loved ones, I was third in the whole of Iraq in the Iraqi Islamic Studies Secondary School!
I finished my fourth grade in Sulaymaniyah, my fifth and sixth grades in Halabja Islamic Studies Secondary School and I was one of the top ten in the Kurdistan Region in the field of Islamic education.
In 1994, I was admitted to the Department of Islamic Studies, College of Language, Sulaymaniyah University. Four years later, I graduated with excellent grades and was one of the top ten in my department.
After graduating from university, I returned to Halabja and on 28-09-1997 I started working in Sharazoor Secondary School in Halabja as a teacher and specialist in Arabic language and Islamic education.
On July 25, 1997, I became a member of the executive committee of the Committee for the Protection of the Rights of the Relatives of Halabja Chemical Attack Martyrs. After a few years we established the Association of Chemical Weapon Victims (officially) (later at my suggestion and in our first congress we changed its name to the Association of Chemical Attack Victims of Halabja) and I was one of the founding members of that association.
In my NGO work, I am a member of the executive committee and the official spokesman of the Halabja Chemical Attack Victims Association. In my government work, I am a teacher and assistant director of Halabja Chemical Attack Martyrs High School.
I have been struggling with the long-term effects of chemical gases on my respiratory system and eyes for more than 32 years. It has been a lot worse for the last five years and I have been constantly lying in bed and in hospitals and connected to several ventilators.
In addition to dozens of articles for newspapers and magazines and thousands of interviews with newspapers, magazines, radio, and television, I have written two books in Kurdish and Arabic about the chemical attack on Halabja (1988/3/16, the day they took everything from me!)
I have participated in several documentaries and films about Halabja such as (Balenja, Nafs Tang, Kamil is looking for breath, Hawzam, etc.), I have participated in several local and international conferences and several civil activities.
I participated as a prosecutor and witness in the trial of Ba'athist leaders.
I participated in filing complaints against several foreign companies that supported Saddam's government.
For 22 years, despite my serious illness, I have been voluntarily serving my nation in general, Halabja province and the victims of Halabja chemical attack in particular.
I have been living in Germany for more than 20 months. [1]