Dersim Rahman Farhan, also known as Dersim Peshawa, or Master Dersim.
He was born in 1961 in Dibaga town, 42 kilometers south of Erbil, the capital of South Kurdistan.
He completed his primary and secondary education in Dibaga and went to Baghdad and Erbil for high school education. He completed his fourth and fifth grades in Baghdad in 1976-1977 and 1977-1978 and his sixth grade in Erbil in 1978-1979.
In 1978, he joined the ranks of the Kurdistan Marxist-Leninist Association in Baghdad, which was later renamed the Kurdistan Workers' Association, but on 17.05.1985 he left the association and politics.
On 19.11.1980, he was appointed as an employee of the Makhmur Youth Center. However, after the execution of his cousin Jamil Ahmad Mahmoudi on 21.05.1981 and his elder brother Tahsin on 26.05.1981, without his knowledge and consent, on 01.08.1981 he was transferred to Orzdi Bag of Makhmur and later to Orzdi Bag of Erbil.
He graduated from the Teacher Training Institute in Erbil in October 1982 and on 1 December 1982 he was employed as a teacher in the primary school of Khate village in Balisan Valley.
In 1983-1984, he was transferred to the village of Balukawa, in the same valley, located between the villages of Tutma and Balisan. For the academic year (1985-1986) he was transferred to Arkhawani Girls School in Biryati neighborhood (Bastapiyaza) in Erbil.
On 2.3.1986, he was arrested by the Northern Regional Intelligence Organization. On 4.6.1987, he was sentenced to 10 years in prison and transferred to Abu Ghraib prison. After serving two years, six months and twelve days, he was released from Abu Ghraib prison on 14.9.1988 under a general amnesty.
After his release, he was drafted into the army and later worked as a laborer.
After the 1991 winter uprising, he returned to his old profession as a teacher.
He married in 1992 and they have two children.
On 15.08.1992, he left South Kurdistan via Iraq and arrived in Amman, Jordan, on 19.08.1992.
In Jordan, he received asylum from the UN and was transferred to Denmark.
In Denmark, he graduated from the College of Business, Department of Translation (Danish - Kurdish - Arabic), in 2002-2004 and received a diploma.
As an independent and impartial person, he has been writing and working as a journalist for several years, especially in the fields of history, Anfal campaigns, Kurdistan martyrs, political prisoners, politics and research on the genocide of the southern Kurds.[1]