Hussein Najm Hussein Mustafa known as Sheikh Hussein, was born in 1931 in the village of Balisan. He was a resident of the village of Shinawe in the Harir sub-district. His level of education was primary. He was employed in the Erbil police and received the rank of Naib Arif. After the 1975 collapse, he became a refugee in the country of Iran and settled in the city of Mahabad. In 1976, he returned to Kurdistan. Hussein Najm's wife's name was Kezi Khadr, his son's name was Ali, and his daughters' names were Fatima and Jahan.
Struggle RecordHussein Najm Hussein Mustafa alongside his work as a policeman inside the city of Erbil, he joined the secret organizations inside the city and was a cadre of the secret cell with Mam Rasul Faqi. In 1968, he was exposed during an activity and went directly to Mount Safin and became a Peshmerga in the Third Battalion of Safin under the command of Mam Rasul Faqi, belonging to the Safin Force of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, in the 1975 collapse he became a refugee in the country of Iran. In 1976, after the general amnesty was issued, he returned to Kurdistan and was exiled to the Gharat sub-district of Nasiriyah province for one year, and later settled in the city of Erbil. At the beginning of the start of the Gulan Revolution he became a cadre of the organization department of Branch Two of the Kurdistan Democratic Party and was responsible for several secret cells inside the city of Erbil.
On May 12, 1981, he was carrying several letters from Idris Barzani to hold a meeting with one of the cells. He was arrested by the Erbil Security in the Shorish neighborhood of Erbil city, and all the letters and instructions were seized from him. He was moved to the Kirkuk Citadel, and a death sentence was issued for him in the military court, and he was moved to the Mosul prison. On October 11, 1981, in the Mosul prison, Hussein Najm was executed and was martyred, and he is one of the martyrs whose grave is unknown.
Source:Archive of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Encyclopedia Board.