The battle this time was started by the government of Iraq with a solid military plan and decisive preparations in various regions of Kurdistan. After it exerted great pressure on the Peshmerga positions, with attack after attack and heavy shelling and bombardment on the Akre mountain, as a result of that great pressure and the shortage of ammunition and explosives, the Peshmerga retreated from those positions to the Pers mountain. With the loss of that defensive line, the headquarters of the Akre and Shekhan force in the Sharman cave, under the command of Hasso Mirxan Dolamari came under the assault and attack of the government forces. Although the government's attacks were broken by the Peshmerga force and they suffered heavy losses, and the Peshmerga, while breaking every attack of the army and Jash, also seized their weapons, the government continued its offensive with a large military force, Jash, and the support of long-range artillery and warplanes.
As a result of all those consecutive attacks and assaults, the government forces were able to seize several places and the village of Shush, where the Peshmerga force under the command of Omar Agha Dolamari was defending. The Peshmerga planned to retake those places because if those places did not fall back under the control of the Peshmerga, the force's headquarters would have to be moved to another place. The Peshmerga's attack plan against the government forces was drawn up on three fronts. One front consisted of attacking the west of the village of Shush under the command of Omar Agha Dolamari, another force in the east of the village under the command of Haji Mirxan Dolamari and Malla Uzair Zeweyi, and another force under the command of Hormuz Malak Chako Masihi from the south to block their path so they could surround them.
In this Peshmerga attack, the government forces suffered a major defeat and vacated their positions, leaving the bodies of their killed behind on the battlefield. It was very close that the commander of the government forces, Colonel Staff Sa'ab Hardan, would be taken prisoner, but at that moment, the Peshmerga commander Omar Agha was wounded, and the Peshmerga were busy with him. The aforementioned had an opportunity and escaped from the hands of the Peshmerga.
After Omar Agha was removed from the front line for treatment due to his injury, Hormuz Malak Chako took his place. The Iraqi Army launched another broad campaign of attack and assault on the Peshmerga positions on June 27, 1963, to sweep the Peshmerga from the entire area. Especially in the afternoon, the battle was very intense, but the Peshmerga defended their positions very strongly until they were able to break this attack and force the government forces to retreat, leaving 12 bodies on the battlefield. In an Iraqi Army telegram numbered (1045) on June 28, which fell into the hands of the Peshmerga in this battle, they had admitted to 27 killed and 51 wounded.
After all those attacks and assaults that the government forces made to capture the force's headquarters in the Sharman cave, they could not achieve their goal but instead suffered a major defeat and heavy losses, because in the Shush area, the Peshmerga under the command of Hormuz Malak Chako held their ground and defended in such a way that they did not allow any progress to be made. Therefore, they were forced to move their forces toward Dinarta and the Pers mountain.
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