In 1974, the first battle I participated in was the Spilik battle. His Excellency Mullah Mustafa Barzani gave the order that Spilik must be captured. At that time, two forces were there: the Sarchiya force, which Haji Mirxan was in charge of, along with the Second Zozik Battalion. We attacked and were able to control Spilik; until the brigade camp, no one remained there, the battle continued, and later the regime's aircraft bombarded us.

The situation was complicated because, in addition to the battle, some people betrayed us and killed their own platoon leader. Therefore, the next morning, after we realized that the aircraft and shelling were making our situation worse, we withdrew and came to Khalani Biyaw and stayed there. We reviewed our own force and reorganized ourselves and stayed there for a while. Later, they sent our force to Gali Omar Agha and our headquarters came to the Galala area. Our force was moved to participate in the battle because at that time, in Sartiz, Gali Omar Agha, and Hasan Beg up to Ashi Khadran, the battle with the Ba'ath regime was ongoing.

In1975 and the stage of displacement in Iran

After the 1975 collapse, I did not surrender, and together with a group, we went to Nuri Hama Ali, who was then the deputy of Fatah Agha, and they had also decided not to surrender.

We went to the Qaladize area where there was a village called Qamish. Because we had a lot of weapons, we were forced to hide our weapons there. Later, we went to Iran from the Penjwen border and stayed for about a month. At that time, we were informed that the Provisional Leadership had been formed and that we needed to prepare ourselves to join the organizations as Peshmerga. We, along with Kak Yunis Rozbayani, were about eight to nine people, and together with Hamid Afandi, we returned to Southern Kurdistan.

Together with the Provisional Leadership, we continued the struggle. For about two and a half to three years, we could not return to our families in Iran. At first, we returned from the Jaldian and Oshnavieh area and stayed in the triangle of the border between Iran, Iraq, and Turkey. We were detachments consisting of several small groups; eight people in one place, ten people in another, and six people in another place.

The battle of the Daryas and Ze area under the supervision of Hamid Afandi and Lieutenant Yunis

 We went to the Daryas area and from there we went to the other side. We wanted to review and see where there was an opportunity to strike and where we could get bullets and rifles. At first, Hamid Afandi provided us with two rifles until we gradually became stronger and obtained more rifles. For this purpose, we carried out activities as a detachment, and during this time, we encountered several battles in the Ze area, which the Iraqi government was trying to evacuate. We struck the Iraqi government, and we also had a Martyr there. The Iraqi government tried to round up the people in the forty-kilometer area of the Iraq-Turkey border to take them away and empty the area. We, who were six people, prevented them and set an ambush. The Iraqi Army, with the help of the Jash, attacked despite having removed them from their homes, which were two hundred houses. Then they attacked us, and we, with those six people, broke the attack. The Peshmerga force had taken positions with determination. In that battle, 24 people from the Iraqi Army were killed and about 25 to 30 people were wounded. We were victorious in that battle.

The Iraqi Army again wanted to displace the people in a Mergasor area, at which time we were on the Turkish side and were able to deal them a good blow, and about 40 to 50 of them were killed. After that, we sent out detachments and went to the Mergasor area and the border areas to show everyone that the struggle continues.

During those two or three years, we faced the regime's army several times. In the Mergasor border, we formed our first detachment and were able to successfully carry out several activities.

After a while, with Kak Yunis Rozbayani, Azad Barwari, and Abdullah Rozbayani, who made us six people, we went to the Marfian village area and brought Kak Sami Abdulrahman.

At this time, they informed us that a force had come from Khwakurk, and we had already known that they were the PUK force. The PUK had swept through the Garmian area, and whoever was a KDP Peshmerga, they would harass them and put pressure on them so that they would not remain and would weaken the KDP in that border.

Our entire force was about fifty people, which Sami Abdulrahman was supervising, Mullah Amin Barzani, Mustafa Nerwayi, and Arif Yasin each had several people with them, and we joined together. Because their force was about two thousand people, we went towards the Turkish border to work in the form of detachments. In the Hakkari area and in very cold weather, we faced each other. They had come to remove us from Badinan as well and to end us there and prevent the continuation of the struggle.

We stood against each other and fought for several days and faced each other with gunfire. In the end, we became one hundred and seventy-five people, but they were still very numerous. In that battle, Arif Yasin Doski, Mustafa Nerwayi, Mullah Amin Barzani, Abdulrahman Haji Ali, Omara Rash, and Kak Yunis Rozbayani participated, and Kak Hamid Afandi also reached us.

We attacked at night and the battle started, and they were broken. We were twenty-four people, and in that attack, Azad Barwari was among us. We carried out a do-or-die attack and surrounded them. If we had not done that, we would have been defeated. We surrounded them and left them no way to escape. We did not let supplies reach them, nor could they buy water and food in a village. If we had not done that, we would have perished.

On the second day, a group of them attacked and succeeded. After Mullah Amin Barzani, Rashid Barzani Barayi, Omara Rash, Mardan Surchi from Akre, and Ahmed Herki were Martyred, we were victorious in the final battle.

We succeeded and arrived at the Bedaw headquarters and brought our prisoners; they were about 300 three hundred people, and as for the others, we gave them the opportunity to escape because we did not intend to kill Peshmerga. Some of the prisoners decided to become Peshmerga with us, but in the end, they all ran away and could not endure it, and they went and surrendered to the government.

In the Year 1987, we came to the Bedaw headquarters and the Iraq government attacked us, a fierce attack, and helicopters were constantly over us. We were only eight to ten people, and we resisted them with Kalashnikovs, Bren guns, and RPGs. We stayed in that mountain at night against the government; that evening, Zirar Zarari killed about twenty soldiers with a Bren gun, and each of us fired according to our own situation. All the Peshmerga were fighting; the Iraq government did not leave us alone and became a thorn against us.

 It was clear that the leaders of the PUK who were captured had confessed, including Ali Askari, Dr. Khalid, and Sheikh Hussein Ezidi. I saw one evening when Ali Askari was captured and they took him to Kak Sami, and they confessed how they had kept several officers as hostages at Haji Muhammad's house, and they had gone to Baghdad and made an agreement with Saddam, and Saddam had said: 'I will have negotiations and an agreement with you, but finish off the KDP, and we will give you the autonomy that we have given to Sheikh Ja'far, and we will add some more for you.' Haji Muhammad, when we went to their house one day with Kak Yunis Rojbayani and Hamid Afandi, also talked about this and said: 'Several brigade commanders have left some officers here with me as hostages, and they have gone to Baghdad and made an agreement with Saddam Hussein.' I do not know how the agreement was with them; that was their confession. We never saw them again.

Ranjdaran Organization in the border of Branch 3

From 1984 to 1985, I was the head of the Ranjdaran organization at the Branch 3 headquarters, and Kak Azad Qaradaghi was the head of Branch 3. From 1986 until 1988 and the Anfal tragedy, I remained at the branch headquarters. In 1990, with Kak Akbar Haidar and Ali Akbar Hidayat, we decided to go and perform an Activity as a detachment because it was said that there were no more Peshmerga and the Kurd had been Anfalized. We came to the Hawan area and formed a detachment; there was an Iraq army base in Hawan. We were inside the base when the sun rose, we were discovered, and it became a life-or-death battle. We were exhausted and wounded, Kak Ali Akbar was martyred, and in bad condition, we reached our place. I and Kak Ali Akbar fired until the end; we had a few bullets left in our rifles, we fired a burst so the soldiers would not come to capture us. It became a life-or-death battle, and for two nights and two days, we did not drink water. At that place, we fired that shot and they were a little hesitant. Ali Akbar put his hand on his chest on the spot of his wound; from that, I knew he had been hit near his heart. That man was heavy, and we were all limping and broken. Kak Aziz pulled my hand and took me out, and I was wounded; the bullet mark is on my head, and even now, some iron shrapnel remains in my head.

If I talk about the battles in the September and Gulan revolutions, I have fought about 150 battles. We captured several battalions in Qaradagh, and there I was a detachment commander, and I participated in all the detachments. I participated in the battle of Qaradagh; they set up the club for me and Hama-y Ramazan and a group, and the organization for another group. Both Sayyid Khalils were martyred there: Sayyid Khalil, the brother of Sayyid Asi, and Sayyid Khalil, the son-in-law of Sayyid Asi. There was a battalion in Mandila, we captured it, and near Glazerda we captured several places and strengthened our detachment. In Mandila, we brought 38 prisoners who were Jash and were Ezidi.

In the September revolution, I participated in several major battles. The first time was in 1973, we attacked Handren and captured the headquarters of the Communist Party. After the collapse of the March 11 agreement in 1974, in Spilik, we also attacked there and came to Gali Omar Agha; we fought about 20 to 30 battles. In Gali Omar Agha, 17 to 18 battalions of Iraq artillery bombarded our area, and we were forced to go to Sartiz. In Sartiz, the government attacked and we fought for several nights. We killed many of them in Sartiz, and a strong attack was made, and in the end, Sartiz was captured. People would come to that border with bravery, but they could not endure it. Because we were constantly at the border, we endured it, and many of us were martyred in Zozk and Sartiz. At that time, I was a platoon leader in Sartiz with Yasin Taha in the back of Zozk. Both of us participated in that battle of Sartiz with 30 people, and we destroyed their battalion. I still remember the battalion commander's name was Naqib Hatam; he had been made a battalion commander because the majors did not have the ability. Naqib Hatam was the battalion commander, and his corpse was left behind; only two or three people from that battalion escaped.

After that, the battle in Besha Valley started. Before that, they took us to Barzan, and we participated in another battle in Barzan. In Besha Valley, the attack was strong. The Algiers Agreement started, and the government itself was in a state of concession; it came and made that agreement and withdrew itself. That was when the collapse happened to us, and we fought until the mill of Khidir Agha. In general, I have participated in about 120 to 150 battles, and if you count the front-line battles, I was in battle for about nine months.

Participation in the 1991 Uprising

In 1991, they transferred me to the Khanaqin border, and I became an administrator of the district. There, we attacked, and we were the first to liberate Khanaqin. We captured Khanaqin in 1991 when we were five people: Akbar Haidar Suramiri, the head of the Khanaqin district committee, and I, and Mullah Aziz, an administrator of the district committee, and Ismail Ahmed Manaf, and... etc. We and the Peshmerga made the first attack, and no Party or side was with us. We held a meeting and said it is March 11, and on that occasion, we attacked Khanaqin.

 Mullah Aziz Ali Jan and Ismail Ahmed Manaf and several Peshmerga stayed with us, and in the evening, Ali Shamar and Hussein Qasim (PUK) came into Khanaqin with a force, and we became one and spent the night in the organization building.

We engaged in fighting in Jalawla, in the Barika area, and in the vicinity of Parvizkhan, so I cannot talk about all of it suddenly, and if there is an opportunity, we will talk about those as well.