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Settam-e-Melli
Settam-e-Melli ( ps, ستم ملي, lit=National Opression) was a political movement in Afghanistan, led by Tahir Badakhshi. The organization was affiliated with the Non-Aligned Movement, and was opposed by both the Afghan monarchy and by the Soviet-aligned People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan. Its followers were mostly Persian speakers. Most of its members were non-Pashtuns— Tajik, Uzbek, and other minorities—and it has been variously described as an anti-Pashtun separatist group and as a Tajik and Uzbek separatist group.Diego Cordovez & Selig S. Harrison, ''Out of Afghanistan: The Inside Story of the Soviet Withdrawal'' (Oxford University Press, 1995), p. 34-35.Senzil Nawid, Language Policy in Afghanistan: Linguistic Diversity and National Unity, in ''Language Policy and Language Conflict in Afghanistan and Its Neighbors'' (Koninklijke Brill NV 2012), p. 42.Frank Clements, Badakhshi, Tahir (?-1979), in ''Conflict in Afghanistan: A Historical Encyclopedia'' (200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tahir Badakhshi
Taher Badakhshi (October 30, 1933 – October 30, 1979) (Persian: طاهر بدخشی) has been a cultural and political personality in Afghanistan. He had performed a large variety of cultural and political activities in Afghanistan including organisation of different scale gatherings of authors, journalists and writers of the country and hosting meetings in which the intelligentsia of different cultural and political backgrounds came together for discussions, and he was the founder of "Settam-e-Melli, Revolutionary Organization of the Toilers of Afghanistan", (in Persian: سازمان انقلابی زحمتکشان افغانستان) a liberal leftist group with affinity to the Non-Aligned Movement that was founded in Yugoslavia in 1956, triggered by Josip Broz Tito, and promoted by the two most pivotal personalities in the global South: Jawaharlal Nehru and Gamal Abdel Nasser. The group has also had a firm touch to the liberal principles and heterogeneous ideas of liberalism ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |