Martyr Mehmud Ehmed Rostem, was born in the Year 1965 in the village of Kaneskani on the edge of Mount Suren, affiliated with the Khurmal sub-district of Halabja province. Initially, he was a villager and engaged in farming. Later, after the defeat of the September Revolution, their village was destroyed by the regime of Iraq at that time, and they were forcibly resettled in the Barika settlement near the Sayid Sadiq district. Mehmud Ehmed Rostem was married, his wife's name was Hapse Abdula, and he had a daughter named Baxan.
In the Year 1981, he became a cadre of the Penjwen District Committee affiliated with Branch Four of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, and from the Year 1984 for one year, he was a Peshmerga in the military section of the Derbendikhan District Committee affiliated with Branch Four of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. Later, in the Year 1985, by the order of the official of Branch Four of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, he was transferred to the Penjwen District Committee and received the rank of official of the fifth branch of the district, and at the same time, he became the official for partisan activities inside the city.
He participated in a group of partisan activities, the most prominent of which were the attack on the Sayid Sadiq police station and the attack on the Qeregol organization.
In the Year 1988 Mehmud Ehmed Rostem and several of his comrades set up an ambush for a military convoy of the Ba'ath regime on the road between Halabja and Sulaymaniyah at the level of the village of Qeregol in the Sharazur plain, and they were able to burn several vehicles and defeat the military convoy, in which operation Mehmud Ehmed Rostem was the carrier of the RPG weapon and had a high role in burning the vehicles. After this major operation, a team from the General Security of Baghdad, along with the Sulaymaniyah Security and special forces, were tasked with investigating and arresting those individuals. For that very reason, Mehmud Ehmed Rostem and several of his comrades named Fehmi Heme Rahim, Jabar Ehmed Salih, Mihemed Heme Kerim, Xalid Eli, and Wali Mehmud Osman were arrested in Sayid Sadiq and its surrounding villages. After one year of imprisonment in the Red Security of Sulaymaniyah, they were transferred to the General Security of Kirkuk for trial, and later, to carry out the court's order, they were sent to Abu Ghraib prison.
On November 29, 1989, in Abu Ghraib prison, Mehmud Ehmed Rostem and one of his comrades named Mihemed Heme Kerim were executed by hanging and became martyrs.
1. Archive of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Encyclopedia