1996: Dr. Mohammad Najibullah
September 27th, 2009 Headsman
On this date in 1996, the man who once ruled ruled Afghanistan under the aegis of a superpower succumbed to the tender mercies of his country’s fundamentalist insurgency.
Mohammad Najibullah was the last president of the Soviet-backed Democratic Republic of Afghanistan. Unfortunately for Najibullah, he was on the job when Moscow decided to throw in the towel on the Soviet-Afghan War.
After losing the subsequent civil war, the former President was trapped for a nervous few years in Kabul — blocked from joining his family in flight to India by the offices of former Soviet client and present-day American client Abdul Rashid Dostum.
When Kabul finally surrendered to the Taliban in 1996, the hated onetime Communist viceroy — whose stepping-stone to that post was heading the hated Afghan secret police — had a problem.
At the instigation of future Taliban second-in-command Mohammad Rabbani, Najibullah and his brother were hauled out of the U.N. compound where they had taken refuge, publicly beaten, tortured and castrated, and strung up on a traffic barricade.
There was a new sheriff in town.
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- 1906: Adolph Weber, nervy
- 1471: Thomas Neville, the Bastard Faulconbridge
- 1976: Three terrorists in Syria
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Tags: 1990s, 1996, abdul rashid dostum, afghan civil war, afghan-soviet war, anti-communism, civil war, communism, communists, islam, kabul, khad, mohammad najibullah, mohammad rabbani, september 27, soviet-afghan war, taliban
February 26th, 2012 at 8:19 am
dont worry sameer
Allah is already punishing them but they dont figure it out.
when they figure it out it will be too late
you can well understand that from the current situation
April 13th, 2012 at 11:45 am
Fuck Taliban, Fuck the jehad, fuck the extremists, Fuck Pakistan, Fuck USA, Fuck Russia, Fuck those who decided to kill Dr. Najibullah, Fuck you fuck you fuck you……..
May 9th, 2012 at 1:10 pm
“Every man has his time”. This man ordered ill intentions against Pakistan, and he did not know, that Pakistan is a far bigger power then Afghanistan. He challenged them, without thinking. He got what he deserved. He sold his country for power and wealth. He wealth did nothing for him… Long LIVE Afghanistan, LONG LIVE PAKISTAN