Martyr Mahmud Ahmed 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 farmer 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 Ahmed Rostam and a few of their comrades set an ambush for a military convoy of the Ba'ath regime on the road between Halabja and Sulaymaniyah, near the village of Qaregolî in the Sharazur plain, and managed to burn several cars and destroy the military convoy, which led to this action. Mahmud Ahmed Rostam He was a carrier of an RPG weapon and played a major role in setting fire to cars. After this major event, Baghdad General Security assigned a team from Sulaymaniyah Security and special forces to investigate and arrest those individuals. 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, at Abu Ghraib prison Mahmud Ahmed Rostam and a friend named Mihemed Heme Karîm were executed and martyred.

Source:

1. Encyclopedia archive of the Kurdistan Democratic Party