The Sharazor epic was one of the other epics of the Peshmerga with the participation of the JOD Front forces. It was recorded between Sayyid Sadiq, Halabja, Zarain, and Darbandikhan and lasted for three days. The JOD Front was established on 28 November 1980 between the Kurdistan Parties such as the Kurdistan Democratic Party the Kurdistan Socialist Party, the Iraqi Communist Party, the Kurdistan Democratic People's Party, and the Kurdish Socialist Party (PASOK), and its name is an abbreviation for the National Democratic Front. The goal of its establishment was the unity of the Kurdistan parties to confront the Ba'ath regime within the framework of a single front.  

The beginning of the events of the Sharazor epic goes back to the Peshmerga Forces that headed from the village of Shirmera to Gilaq, Gardi Qazi, and Tapa Zirina to roam and strike the military institutions of the Ba'athist regime. The Peshmerga Forces remained for one day in the villages of Tapsarqula, Kashiri, Qajer, Gardi Sharif, and Dolash in the Sharazor area. On the same day, a large force of the Army and mercenaries (Jash), reinforced by tanks, artillery, and aircraft, attacked the Peshmerga Forces in Tapsarqula, Kashiri, and Chami Zalim. The Peshmerga Forces, led by Muhammad Haji Mahmoud, Nader Hawrami, and Azad Qaradaghi, who were responsible for the JOD Front in the area, launched from 10 am until 4 pm. During this epic, dozens of soldiers and gunmen of the Ba'ath government were killed, and four of the Peshmerga Forces were martyred, namely: Muhammad Quta, Barzan Salih, Muhammad Sarawi, and Sirwan Saadoun Kirkuki, along with a citizen named Gharib from the residents of Tapsarqula village. After the end of the battle, the government forces retreated to the Sayyid Sadiq camp.




 

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- Nuri Hama Ali, History of the Struggle of a Peshmerga between Life and Death, Shahab Printing House, Second Edition, Erbil – 2016.

3- Sayyid Kaka, Memories of a Peshmerga, Ministry of Culture Printing House, First Edition, 1997.

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