In Sulaymaniyah alone thousands of Ba'athists were killed. 1,000 of those bastards were executed (Ba'athists, not regular soldiers).
The Peshmerga fought for weeks against the Ba'ath army in order to give the civilian population the opportunity to retreat to the mountains. Saddam's army was fucked, tens of thousands of his soldiers/ba'athists were killed, while the Shi'ites in the sound didn't managed to do anything special or as huge as in South-Kurdistan...
We fucking liberated entire South-Kurdistan from the most powerful dictator in the Middle-East within 5 or 6 days... the stupid Arabs in Syria are fighting more than 1.5 year now and they haven't liberated one fucking city... that says enough

In 1991, the Peshmerga almost killed Ali Hassan Majid. The Peshmerga took over Kirkuk and the bastard flew away with his helicopter (he ran away). The Peshmerga tried to take his chopper down, but their weapons were not sufficient. Even old Kurdish women took up the arms and fought against the Ba'athists! Every street corner will be guarded, not only by the Peshmerga, but by the entire Kurdish population. Everyone has weapons in their homes, everyone will resist against a new dictator in South-Kurdistan!