Mahmud Ahmed Rostam was born in the Year 1965 in the village of Kaneskan at the foot of Surin Mountain, belonging to the Khurmal sub-district of Halabja province. Initially, he was a villager and engaged in farming. Later, after the collapse of the Aylul Revolution, their village was destroyed by the then-regime of Iraq, and they were forcibly resettled in the Barika settlement near Said Sadiq district. Mahmud Ahmed was married, his wife's name was Hapsa Abdullah, and he had one daughter named Bakhan.
In the Year 1981, he became a cadre of the Regional Committee of Penjwen, affiliated with the Fourth Branch of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. In the Year 1984, for one year, he became a Peshmerga in the military section of the Regional Committee of Darbandikhan, affiliated with the Fourth Branch of the Party. Later, in the Year 1985, by order of the official in charge of the Fourth Branch of the Party, he was transferred to the Regional Committee of Penjwen and assumed the rank of head of the fifth cell of the region. At the same time, he was appointed as the person in charge of partisan activities in the city.
He participated in a series of partisan activities and battles, the most prominent of which were the attack on the Said Sadiq police station, the attack on the Qara Gol organization, and the Qara Gol ambush.
In the Year 1988, Mahmud Ahmed Rostam and several of his comrades set an ambush for a military convoy of the Ba'ath regime on the road between Halabja and Sulaymaniyah, at the level of Qara Gol village in the Sharazur plain. They were able to burn several vehicles and destroy the military convoy. In this activity, Mahmud Ahmed Rostam was an RPG carrier and had a high role in burning the vehicles. After this major activity, a team from the General Security of Baghdad, a team from the Sulaymaniyah Security, and special forces were assigned to investigate and arrest the perpetrators. Therefore, Mahmud Ahmed Rostam and several of his comrades named Fahmi Hama Rahim, Jabar Ahmed Salih, Muhammad Hama Karim, Khalid Ali, and Wali Mahmud Osman were arrested in Said Sadiq and the surrounding villages. After one year of imprisonment in the Sulaymaniyah Security, they were transferred to the General Security of Kirkuk for trial and later sent to Abu Ghraib prison to carry out the court's order.
On November 29, 1989, in Abu Ghraib prison, Mahmud Ahmed Rostam and his comrade named Muhammad Hama Karim were executed and were martyred.
Source:- Archive of the Encyclopedia Board Kurdistan Democratic Party.