After the signing of the Algiers Agreement on 6 March 1975 between Iraq and Iran, which was implemented as an international plan against the Kurdish liberation movement, the fate of the Kurds in South Kurdistan was struck with frustration and difficult human misery. The Ba'ath government thought that it had managed to eliminate the Kurdish movement permanently and that it was impossible for it to rise again, but in reality, this did not happen. The armed revolution resumed in May 1976, and hope and confidence returned to the people of Kurdistan, and this step is considered a new turning point in contemporary Kurdish history.[1].

After that period, Peshmerga Forces were sent into the depths of South Kurdistan by the leadership of the revolution, and then contact was made with the cadres and Peshmerga of the Aylul Revolution who remained in Kurdistan and did not take refuge in Iran or Turkey, in order to organize their ranks and reactivate another phase of the revolution and begin combat activities and guerrilla warfare. In addition to that, they aimed to deliver a message of the revolution's resurgence and the defense of the rights of the people of Kurdistan to the leaders of the Ba'ath regime.[2].

One of the activities carried out by the Peshmerga Forces, through which they were able to inflict significant damage on the institutions of the Ba'ath government, was the guerrilla warfare activity in the Qasrok area, which belongs to the Sheikhan district in Duhok Governorate in the year 1978. After a force of Peshmerga managed to reach one of the bases of the Ba'ath regime fighters, they launched a surprise attack on the base and managed to inflict heavy human and material losses among the dead and wounded within a short period. In this operation, one of the Peshmerga members named Hamid Hafiz Allah was martyred, and he was an advanced cadre in the Kurdistan Democratic Party, and after his body was transported, he was laid to rest in the village of Blan, which belongs to the Meriba sub-district.[3].

It is worth noting that all these activities carried out by the Peshmerga Forces served as a frightening message to the leaders of the Ba'ath regime, meaning that the revolution, even if it suffers a setback due to injustice and international schemes, will return to the arena of struggle in another form and bury the dreams of those who wished to eliminate it. ‌ 

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 South Kurdistan 1976-1980, First Edition, Shahab Printing House, Erbil-2012. 
  3. Ghazi Adel Gardi: A Peshmerga in the Service of Barzani, Volume Two, Second Edition, Turkey- 2021.         

[1] Jamal Fathullah Tayeb: The Kurdish Liberation Movement in South Kurdistan 1976-1980, First Edition, Shahab Printing House, Erbil-2012, p.11.

[2] Ghazi Adel Gardi: A Peshmerga in the Service of Barzani, Volume Two, Second Edition, Turkey- 2021, p.46

[3] Masoud Barzani: Barzani and the Kurdish Liberation Movement, Volume Four, 1975-1990 Gulan Revolution, Part Two, First Edition, Roxana Printing House, 2021, p.53.