Martyr Mahmud Osman Halo, known as Mahmud Halo, was born in 1956 in the village of Buseli in the Sindi region, affiliated with the Zakho district, into a patriotic Kurdish family. In 1963, he began his primary education in the village of Buseli and completed this stage there. He completed his middle and high school education in the city of Zakho. In 1977, he was accepted into the College of Administration and Economics at the University of Mosul and graduated with top honors. Because of this, his name was selected for higher education (Master's), but due to his refusal to accept membership in the Ba'ath Party, he was forced to sacrifice his Master's degree for the cause of his people. In 1981, he became a refugee in the country of Iran. In 1993, he became the Director General of Trade and also the Director General of Revenue in the 1st and 2nd cabinets of the Kurdistan Regional Government. In 2000, he became the Deputy Minister of Finance and Economy. He was martyred on February 1, 2004.
Martyr Mahmud Osman also had a golden touch in the field of writing. The best evidence for this is his poems and dozens of literary and political articles he wrote. He published several of his articles in the newspapers and magazines of the revolution era. The martyr wrote more than a hundred poems. It is worth mentioning that some of the martyr's poems have been collected in a book titled (Words of the Martyr), but these works have been preserved and have not been printed until now. He also collected the life and selections of Jagarxwin in a book, all of which were written between the years (1980-1988) in the martyr's own handwriting. He also translated the Diwan (Gift) of the Kurdish poet (Tirej) from Latin script to Arabic script, and translated five Diwans of (Jagarxwin) from Latin script to Arabic script.
Struggle HistoryMartyr Mahmud Osman Halo, known as Mahmud Halo, joined the ranks of the secret organization of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in 1976. Because of this, while he was still a student, he was arrested by the Ba'ath regime on December 11, 1976, and sent to the city of Kirkuk. He was released on March 21, 1977, after boundless torture. After completing his university studies, he joined the revolution. In 1981, he became a refugee in the country of Iran, and in that same year, he was chosen by the revolution for the Refugee Committee in the city of Urmia. In 1984, by the decision of the Political Bureau, he was accepted as a member of the Financial Department.
The martyr participated in several defensive battles, such as the epic of Khwakurk in 1988 and the Uprising of 1991. On February 1, 2004, on the first day of the holy Eid al-Adha, he was martyred in a terrorist incident at the headquarters of Branch Two in the city of Erbil.
Source:Archive of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Encyclopedia Board.