Abdul Majid Kalakani[Ludwig Adamec and Frank Clements. Conflict in Afghanistan: A Historical Encyclopedia. ABC‐Clio, 2003.] (; 1939 – 8 June 1980) also known as Majid Agha[Hafizullah Emadi. Repression, Resistance, and Women in Afghanistan. Praeger, 2002.] was an Afghan communist politician.[Hafizullah Emadi. Culture and Customs of Afghanistan. Greenwood, 2005.] He was the founder and leader of the Liberation Organization of the People of Afghanistan (SAMA).
Biography
Majid Kalakani was born in 1939 in the village of
Kalakan in
Shomali Plain. In 1945 his father and grandfather were arrested and executed by the Mohammad Hashim Khan regime.
[Hafizullah Emadi. Dynamics of Political Development in Afghanistan: The British, Russian, and American Invasions.Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.] Kalakani was a
Maoism activist in the 1960s
[Gilles Dorronsoro. Revolution Unending: Afghanistan, 1979 to the Present. Columbia University Press, 2002.] and a member of the movement Shalleh-ye Javiyd. In 1978, Kalakani founded SAMA.
[Ludwig Adamec and Frank Clements. Conflict in Afghanistan: A Historical Encyclopedia. ABC‐Clio, 2003.] He was a leader of the Maoist resistance against the PDPA regime and Soviet invasion.
[Anthony Hyman. Afghanistan under Soviet Domination, 1964–91. Palgrave Macmillan, 1992.] In 1979 he founded the United National Front of Afghanistan.
[Mohammed Kakar. Afghanistan: The Soviet Invasion and the Afghan Response, 1979-1982.University of California Press, 1997.] On 27 February 1980 Majid Kalakani was
near
Kabul[Halim Tanwir. Afghanistan: History, Diplomacy and Journalism Volume 1. Xlibris, 2013.] 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] He was
executed on June 8, 1980.
Further reading
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Journal of the University of Baluchistan, 1981: Abd al-Majid Kalakani as the Symbol of National Resistance.
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