After the signing of the Algiers Agreement on March 6, 1975, between Iraq and Iran, which was carried out as an international plan against the Kurdish liberation movement and caused the fate of the Kurds in Southern Kurdistan to face a difficult humanitarian disaster, the Ba'ath government thought that it had finally ended the Kurdish movement and that a resurgence was impossible. However, in reality, it did not turn out that way; rather, in a short time, specifically in May 1976, the armed revolution began again, and hope and confidence returned to the people of Kurdistan. This step is considered a new turning point in the contemporary history of the Kurd.

Immediately after that period, the Peshmerga forces were sent back by the leadership of the revolution into the depths of Southern Kurdistan. Then, they established a relationship with the cadres and Peshmerga of the Aylul Revolution who had remained in Kurdistan and had not become refugees in Iran and Turkey, so that they could reorganize themselves and restart another phase of the revolution in a partisan manner and carry out Peshmerga activities. In addition to that, they delivered the message of the resurgence of the revolution and the defense of the rights of the residents of Kurdistan to the leaders of the Ba'ath regime. 

One of the activities that the Peshmerga carried out and was able to cause great damage to the agencies and institutions of the Ba'ath government was a partisan activity in the Qasrok area, belonging to the Sheikhan district of Dohuk province in the Year 1978. After a Peshmerga force was able to reach one of the bases of the Ba'ath regime's armed men, they suddenly attacked the base and in a short time were able to cause great human and material damage to it, which consisted of the killing and wounding of a large number of armed men. In that activity, a Peshmerga was martyred who was a skilled cadre of the Kurdistan Democratic Party named Hamid Hafzullah. After moving his body, they were buried in the village of Blan in the Meriba sub-district.

It is worth mentioning that all such activities of the Peshmerga were a frightening message to the leaders of the Ba'ath regime that the revolution, even if it collapses due to force and international conspiracies, will once again come to the field of struggle in another form and bury all those dreams and wishes that they saw with its final disappearance.   

Sources:

  1. Masoud Barzani: Barzani and the Kurdish Liberation Movement, Volume Four, 1975-1990 Gulan Revolution, Part Two, First Edition, Roxana Printing House, 2021.

  2. Jamal Fathullah Tayeb: The Kurdish Liberation Movement in Southern Kurdistan 1976-1980, First Edition, Shahab Printing House, Erbil-2012.  

  3. Ghazi Adil Gardi: A Peshmerga in the Service of Barzani, Volume Two, Second Edition, Turkey- 2021.