Martyr Mahmud Ahmed Rostem was born in 1965 in the village of Kaneskan on the edge of the Suren mountain, affiliated with the Khurmal sub-district of Halabja province. Initially, he was a villager and engaged in farming. Later, after the defeat of the September Revolution, their village was destroyed by the regime of Iraq at that time, and they were forcibly settled in the Barike settlement near the Said Sadiq district. Mahmud Ahmed Rostem was married, his wife's name was Hapsa Abdullah, and he had a daughter named Baxan.
In 1981, he became a cadre of the Penjwen District Committee affiliated with Branch Four of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, and in 1984, he was a Peshmerga for one year in the military section of the Derbendikhan District Committee affiliated with Branch Four of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. Later, in 1985, by the order of the head of Branch Four of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, he was transferred to the Penjwen District Committee and received the rank of commander of the fifth field of the district, and at the same time, he became the commander of partisan activities inside the city.
He participated in a group of partisan activities, the most prominent of which were the attack on the Said Sadiq police station and the attack on the Qeregol organization.
In 1988, Mahmud Ahmed Rostem and several of his friends set an ambush for a military convoy of the Ba'ath regime on the road between Halabja and Sulaymaniyah, at the level of the village of Qeregol in the Sharazur plain, and were able to burn several vehicles and defeat the military convoy. In this operation, Mahmud Ahmed Rostem was the carrier of the RPG weapon and had a high role in burning the vehicles. After this major operation, a team from the General Security of Baghdad, the Sulaymaniyah Security, and special forces were tasked with investigating and arresting those individuals. For that very reason, Mahmud Ahmed Rostem and several of his friends named Fehmi Hama Rahim, Jabar Ahmed Salih, Mohammed Hama Karim, Khalid Ali, and Wali Mahmud Osman were arrested in Said Sadiq and its surrounding villages. After a year of imprisonment in the Amna Suraka of Sulaymaniyah, they were transferred to the General Security of Kirkuk for trial, and later, to carry out the court's order, they were sent to Abu Ghraib prison.
On November 29, 1989, in Abu Ghraib prison, Mahmud Ahmed Rostem and his friend named Mohammed Hama Karim were executed by hanging and became martyrs.
Source:1. Archive of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Encyclopedia