Not HIM, of course. HE doesn't want to become the mother of a martyr, he's describing what the people he represents aspire to (or what he'd like them to aspire to).
...A woman wakes her son up, he takes a shower, she prays with him, and hands him his weapon, they are filmed together, and then she says to him: "My dear, I want you back as a martyr. I want to become the mother of a martyr."...