Abdul Majid Kalakani (; 1939 – 8 June 1980) also known as Majid Agha was an Afghan

communist Communism () is a sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology within the socialist movement, whose goal is the creation of a communist society, a socioeconomic order centered on common ownership of the means of production, di ...

politician. He was the founder and leader of the

Liberation Organization of the People of Afghanistan Liberation Organization of the People of Afghanistan (, ''Sazman-e Azadibakhsh-e Mardom-e Afghanistan'', SAMA) was a Maoist insurgent group operating in Afghanistan, and based in Parwan Province. It was the main leftist politico-military organiz ...

(SAMA).

Biography

Majid Kalakani was born in 1939 in the village of

Kalakan Kalakan , is a village located in the center of Kalakan District, Kabul Province, Afghanistan. Notable People of Kalakan * Habibullāh Kalakāni, Afghan revolutionary leader who deposed the Barakzai Dynasty and captured vast swathes of Afgha ...

Shomali Plain The Shomali Plain, also called the Shomali Valley or Kohistan, is a plateau just north of Kabul, Afghanistan. It is approximately 30 km wide and 80 km long. ''Shomali'' means 'windy' or 'northern' (i.e. north of Kabul). Most of the popula ...

. In 1945 his father and grandfather were arrested and executed by the

Mohammad Hashim Khan Sardar Mohammad Hashim Khan (1884 – 26 October 1953) was a political figure in Afghanistan. Life and career Mohammad Hashim Khan was born in 1884 in Dehradun, British India. He was the younger brother of King Mohammad Nadir Shah and the eld ...

regime. Kalakani was a

Maoist Maoism, officially Mao Zedong Thought, is a variety of Marxism–Leninism that Mao Zedong developed while trying to realize a socialist revolution in the agricultural, pre-industrial society of the Republic of China (1912–1949), Republic o ...

activist in the 1960s and a member of the movement

Shalleh-ye Javiyd Shola-e Javid () was an anti-revisionist Marxist–Leninist communist party founded around 1964 in the Kingdom of Afghanistan by Abdul Rahim Mahmudi. Its strategy was Maoist and populist, gaining support from university students, professionals, ...

. In 1978, Kalakani founded SAMA. He was a leader of the Maoist resistance against the

PDPA PDPA can refer to: *People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan – a communist party * Personal Data Protection Act 2012 – a Singapore law governing the use and protection of personal data * Professional Dart Players Association – a trade associ ...

regime and Soviet invasion. In 1979 he founded the United National Front of Afghanistan. On 27 February 1980 Majid Kalakani was

arrest An arrest is the act of apprehending and taking a person into custody (legal protection or control), usually because the person has been suspected of or observed committing a crime. After being taken into custody, the person can be question ...

ed near

Kabul Kabul is the capital and largest city of Afghanistan. Located in the eastern half of the country, it is also a municipality, forming part of the Kabul Province. The city is divided for administration into #Districts, 22 municipal districts. A ...

as the result of the 3 Hut uprising against Soviet occupation.Six Days That Shook Kabul: The ‘3 Hut uprising’, first urban protest against the Soviet occupation
/ref> He was

executed Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty and formerly called judicial homicide, is the state-sanctioned killing of a person as punishment for actual or supposed misconduct. The sentence (law), sentence ordering that an offender b ...

on June 8, 1980.

References

External links

Afghanistan: Celebration on the anniversary of Majid Kalakani death
{{DEFAULTSORT:Kalakani, Majid 1939 births 1980 deaths Afghan Tajik people Afghan communists Afghan revolutionaries 20th-century Afghan poets Maoists Maoism in Afghanistan Executed Afghan people Executed communists Executed revolutionaries Afghan male poets 20th-century executions by Afghanistan

Biography

References

Further reading

External links