Mahmoud Ahmed Rustam was born in the Year 1965 in the village of Kaniskan at the foot of Mount Surin belonging to the Khurmal sub-district in Halabja Governorate. He was initially a villager and worked in agriculture, but after the setback of Aylul Revolution the Iraqi regime destroyed their village, and they were forcibly deported to the Barika complex near the Said Sadiq district. Mahmoud Ahmed was married to Hafsa Abdullah and was a father to one daughter named Bakhan.

In the Year 1981, he became a cadre for the Penjwen local committee belonging to the Fourth Branch of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. He joined the ranks of the Peshmerga in 1984 for one year in the military section of the Darbandikhan local committee belonging to the Fourth Branch of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. In the following year, i.e., in the Year 1985, he was transferred by order of the official of the Fourth Branch of the Party to the Penjwen local committee and became responsible for the Fifth Cell in the local committee, and at the same time, he became responsible for guerrilla warfare activities inside the city.

He participated in a group of activities and guerrilla warfare operations, most notably the attack on the Said Sadiq police station, the attack on the Qargol organization, and the Qargol ambush.

In the Year 1988, Mahmoud Ahmed Rustam and a number of his Peshmerga comrades set an ambush for a military convoy belonging to the Ba'athist regime soldiers on the road between Halabja and Sulaymaniyah near the village of Qargol in the Sharazor plain. During this operation, they were able to destroy the convoy and burn a number of military vehicles. Mahmoud Ahmed Rustam was carrying an RPG launcher and had a distinguished role in burning those vehicles. After this major activity, by order of the General Security Directorate in Baghdad, a committee from the Sulaymaniyah Security and a special force were tasked with investigating the operation and arresting those responsible for it. Therefore, Mahmoud Ahmed Rustam and a number of his Peshmerga comrades were arrested in Said Sadiq and its surroundings, and they are: Fahmi Hama Rahim, Jabbar Ahmed Salih, Muhammad Hama Karim, Khalid Ali, and Wali Mahmoud Osman. After a year of their detention in the prison known as (Amna Suraka) in the city of Sulaymaniyah, they were transferred to the General Security in Kirkuk for trial, and then to Abu Ghraib prison to carry out the court's verdict. 

Mahmoud Ahmed Rustam and his Peshmerga comrade Muhammad Hama Karim were martyred after being executed on 29 November 1989 in Abu Ghraib prison.

Source:

Archive of the Encyclopedia Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.