Afghanistan Mujahedin Freedom Fighters Front ( fa, جبهه مبارزين مجاهد افغانستان, AMFF or AMFFF) was a

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of four

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paramilitary factions, formed on the initiative of

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groups, including the Revolutionary Group of the Peoples of Afghanistan (RGPA, later named

Afghanistan Liberation Organization Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan,; prs, امارت اسلامی افغانستان is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. Referred to as the Heart of Asia, it is bordere ...

LO and the

Liberation Organization of the People of Afghanistan Liberation Organization of the People of Afghanistan ( fa, سازمان آزادی‌بخش مردم افغانستان, ''Sazman-e Azadibakhsh-e Mardom-e Afghanistan'', SAMA) was a Maoist insurgent group operating in Afghanistan, and based in Pa ...

(SAMA)—together with moderate Islamists including the Afghanistan National Liberation Front, in June 1979.https://www.afghanistan-analysts.org/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2012/09/NIbr-Maoists-final.pdf They set aside their ideological differences in the fight against a common enemy. The Front fought against the pro-Soviet government and later also the

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during the

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History

On August 5, 1979, the Front tried to initiate an uprising against the

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government. The move, which was brutally crushed, became known as the

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.Glossary of Names and Terms mentioned in the Historical Overview
/ref> The most famous publication of AMFFF was called ''Neither Puppet Regime nor Fundamentalism, Freedom and Democracy!'', which was widely distributed across Afghanistan in the early 1980s. The head of AMFFF was Mulavi Dawood, who was abducted and killed by Islamic Party in

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in November 1986.

References

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