Martyr Rasul Hussein was born in 1954 in the village of Roste, which belongs to the Galala sub-district of the Choman district of Erbil Governorate. He was engaged in nomadic animal husbandry and studied up to the primary level.
Rasul Hussein was detained in 1982 by an opposing force of the Kurdistan Democratic Party and was released in exchange for 20,000 Iraqi Dinars of that time and a large number of sheep. Immediately after his release, he headed to the Country of Iran and in Khani became a Peshmerga of the Balak Regional Committee, affiliated with the Second Branch of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, where at that time Abdulrahman Malla Rasul was the political responsible and Najmadin Goroni was the military responsible of the Regional Committee.
Rasul Hussein had an active participation in the partisan activities of the Roste Valley, Balisan Valley, and the surroundings of Srishma. He also had an active participation in the battles against the opponents of the Kurdistan Democratic Party within the territory of the Country of Iraq and Iran, the most prominent of which were the battles of the Zewi and Marga valleys. In 1983, in the battle against the Party's opponents in Qaratuka of the village of Sheikh Wasan in the Khoshnawati Valley, he was severely wounded and several bullets hit his left leg.
In Year 1985, he received the rank of detachment Commander, which was affiliated with the Balak Regional Committee. In Year 1990, after carrying out several activities in the Khoshnawati region and returning towards the Country of Iran, at the foothills of Mount Halgurd, Rasul Hussein fell into an ambush by the soldiers and Jash of the Ba'ath regime and was martyred.
Source:1- Archive of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Encyclopedia Board.