The partisan activities of the Peshmerga were not limited to a few methods such as attacking outposts, setting ambushes, and similar actions; rather, any method that the Peshmerga could employ—such as descending into the city, distributing posters, expanding organization, and striking, eliminating, and targeting traitors, mercenaries, and security agency employees who constantly harassed the residents of the cities and villages of Kurdistan with improper actions and harming the residents of the place... etc.—they did not refrain from them.
What we want to discuss in these few lines of writing is the targeting of an employee of the security office inside the town of Sidakan in the Bradost region at the hands of a group of brave and self-sacrificing Peshmerga. One of the Peshmerga who participated in the activity, named Abdulrahman Haji, recounted to us: In the autumn of 1978, from the secret organizations inside the town, news reached the Peshmerga Forces that one of the employees of the Sidakan Security Office had for some time, without regard for religious and social principles and values, been going to the women's spring, watching them, and approaching them. Whether for immoral purposes or intelligence gathering or anything else, this in no way aligns with customs, traditions, religious principles, and social values. Therefore, the voice of the residents' protest rose because those types of springs were specific to women for fetching water, fulfilling household needs, praying, and... etc. It was not for any man to approach such springs, but the institutions of the Ba'ath regime did not know the value of those social laws and rules; rather, they were always busy enforcing a repressive policy.
When the news reached the Peshmerga Forces that such a phenomenon existed, they immediately formed a squad led by the military commander Hamid Afandi. They were able to secretly reach the town of Sidakan in a short time. Before the security employee arrived, they laid in wait near the spring and waited for his arrival. After a while, they saw that, like previous days, his shadows appeared, slowly creeping toward the edges of the spring. But this time, unlike previous times, he was unaware that he could no longer achieve his goal and return to his base on his own feet. In the blink of an eye, three people sprang out like leopards to hunt him, attacked him, and tied his hands, face, and feet. Without delay, they left the city very carefully toward the revolution's leadership and delivered him to the intended place.
After remaining at the Peshmerga Headquarters for a while and conducting an investigation with him, a decision was made to execute him, and he was eliminated. Although the Ba'ath government intervened to free him, the revolution's leadership did not listen to them and did not hand him back. In retaliation for that, the government arrested one of the close associates of the Peshmerga commander Hamid Afandi and made him disappear.
Source:Interview with Abdulrahman Haji, from Balakayati, Peshmerga of the Gulan Revolution, participant in the activity, Soran. February 2, 2026.