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Mahmoud Ahmad Rostam Osman

Martyr Mahmoud Ahmad Rostam was a cadre and Peshmerga of the Gulan Revolution. He was responsible for the activities inside the cities. He was detained in Said Sadiq in 1988 along with several of his friends, and he and a friend were both killed there in 1989.

Mahmoud Ahmad Rostam was born in 1965 in Kaneskani village on the slopes of Suren Mountain in Khurmal district of Halabja province. He was a villager and a farmer. Following the collapse of the Aylul Revolution, his village was destroyed by the Iraqi regime, and they were forcibly settled in Barika settlement near Said Sadiq district. Furthermore, Mahmoud Ahmad was married to Hapsa Abdullah and had one daughter, Bakhan

In 1981, he became a cadre of the Penjwen district committee of the fourth branch of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP). Moreover, he became a Peshmerga for one year in the military department of the Darbandikhan area committee of the fourth branch of the KDP. Then, in 1985 he was transferred to the Penjwen Regional Committee by order of the head of the fourth branch of the KDP. There, he was appointed head of the fifth division of the region and was also appointed head of activities in the city.

He participated in a number of activities, the most prominent of which were the attack on the police station of Said Sadiq, the attack on the Karagol system and the Karagol ambush.

In 1988, Mahmoud Ahmad Rostam and a number of his allies ambushed a Ba'ath regime military convoy in front of the village of Karagoli in the Sharazoor plain. They succeeded in setting a number of cars on fire and destroying the military convoy. Mahmoud Ahmad Rostam was carrying an RPG weapon and played a major role in burning the vehicles. Following this significant operation, special forces, Sulaimani security personnel, and members of Baghdad's general security were tasked with tracking down and apprehending the perpetrators. As a result, Mahmoud Ahmad Rostam and several comrades named Fahmi Hama Rahim, Jabar Ahmad Salih, Mohammed Hama Karim, Khalid Ali, Wali Mahmoud Osman were arrested in Said Sadiq and the surrounding villages. After a year in custody, they were moved to Kirkuk General Security for a trial before being transferred to Abu Ghraib prison to carry out the judge's order.

Mahmoud Ahmad Rostam and a fellow inmate named Mohammed Hama Karim were both executed in Abu Ghraib prison on November 29, 1989.

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