In 1985 a group of Kurdish fighters, known as a “Peshmerga,” embarked on a mission to attack one of the Iraqi army’s camps in the north of the country. They traveled on the Sirwan river by small raft to cross the area controlled by the Iraqi army.
This footage is part of an old archive taken by Sherko Abbas’ father, Abbas Abdulrazaq, a former Kurdish Peshmerga fighter and cameraman. He accompanied this group of Peshmerga to document their activities during the mission. Despite all the risks they took, the battle never took place and so, the fighters were filmed as they sang songs and waited.
