Martyr Mahmud Ehmed Rostam was born in 1965 in the village of Kanêskani on the slopes of the Surên mountain in the Xurmal district of Halabja province. At first, he was a villager and engaged in farming. Then, after the defeat of the September Revolution, their village was destroyed by the then Iraqi regime and they were forcibly resettled in the Barîke settlement near the Seyid Sadiq district. Mahmud Ehmed Rostam became a housewife and his family name was Hepse Ebdula and he had a daughter named Baxan.

In 1981, he became a cadre of the Penjiwen District Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party's Fourth Division, and in 1984, he became a Peshmerga in the military section of the Derbendikhan District Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party's Fourth Division for one year. Then, in 1985, by order of the head of the Fourth Division of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, he was transferred to the Penjiwen District Committee and received the rank of head of the fifth division of the district, and at the same time, he became responsible for partisan activities in the city.

He has participated in a number of partisan activities, the most notable of which were the attack on the Seyid Sadiq police station and the attack on the Qaregol museum.

In 1988, Mahmud Ehmed Rostam and several of his friends ambushed a military convoy of the Ba'ath regime on the road between Halabja and Sulaymaniyah and at the level of the village of Qaregolî in the Sharazur plain and managed to burn several cars and destroy the military convoy. In this action, Mahmud Ehmed Rostam was the RPG weapon carrier and he played a high role in burning the cars. After this major action, a team from the Sulaymaniyah Security and the special forces were assigned by the Baghdad General Security to investigate and arrest those people. For this reason Mahmud Ahmed Rostam and several of their friends named Fehmî Hame Rahim, Jabar Ahmed Salih, Mihemed Hame Karim, Khalîd Ali, and Walî Mahmud Osman were arrested in Seyid Sadiq and surrounding villages. After a year of imprisonment in the Sulaymaniyah Police Station, they were transferred to the Kirkuk General Police Station for trial and then sent to Abu Ghraib Prison to carry out the court order.

On November 29, 1989, Mahmud Ehmed Rostam and a friend named Mihemed Heme Karim were hanged and martyred in Abu Ghraib Prison.

Source:

1. Encyclopedia archive of the Kurdistan Democratic Party