Martyr Mahmud Yaba was born in Year 1949 at the foot of Sefin Mountain in the village of Qirzhay, affiliated with Pirmam district. He was a resident of Erbil and was engaged in market trade and driving a combine harvester. He had a primary level of education, was married, and his wife's name was Hanifa Omar.
Struggle RecordMartyr Mahmud Yaba became a cadre of the Erbil Plain force organization in Year 1965 of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, in an activity in Year 1967 he was arrested by the Erbil Security and was imprisoned for one year in the Mosul prison, after his release in Year 1968 he became a Peshmerga in the Erbil Plain force of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, at which time Martyr Faris Bawa was the Commander of the force.
On the date of 14 July 1969, by the order of Sabir Sheikh Jami, the Deputy Commander of the force, Mahmud Yaba and two Comrades were sent to carry out a partisan activity in the Arab-inhabited village of Gaderiya in the Gwer plain, in the village they fell into an ambush by the Military and Jash of the then-regime of Iraq, Mahmud Yaba and a Comrade named Sofi Hassan were martyred.
Source:Archive of the Encyclopedia Board of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.