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DemocratSinceBirth

(99,710 posts)
Mon Aug 16, 2021, 01:17 PM Aug 2021

Ahraf Ghani evidently didn't want to meet the same fate as Mohammad Najibullah

Najibullah was at the UN compound when the Taliban soldiers came for him on the evening of 26 September 1996.[7] The Taliban abducted him from UN custody and tortured him to death, and then dragged his dead (and, according to Robert Parry, castrated[77]) body behind a truck through the streets of Kabul. His brother, Shahpur Ahmadzai, was given the same treatment.[78] Najibullah and Shahpur's bodies were hanged from a traffic light pole outside the Arg presidential palace the next day in order to show the public that a new era had begun. The Taliban prevented Islamic funeral prayers for Najibullah and Shahpur in Kabul, but the bodies were later handed over to the International Committee of the Red Cross who in turn sent their bodies to Gardez in Paktia Province, where both of them were buried after the Islamic funeral prayers for them by their fellow Ahmadzai tribesmen.[78]

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_Najibullah


Can you blame the guy for leaving in a hurry?
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Ahraf Ghani evidently didn't want to meet the same fate as Mohammad Najibullah (Original Post) DemocratSinceBirth Aug 2021 OP
No wonder Ghani left in a hurry... these people are sick ..... ugh secondwind Aug 2021 #1
And these sick people are in charge. Rustyeye77 Aug 2021 #2
I empathize with oppressed people all over the world. DemocratSinceBirth Aug 2021 #3
The hatred for Najibullah was intense. roamer65 Aug 2021 #4
 

Rustyeye77

(2,736 posts)
2. And these sick people are in charge.
Mon Aug 16, 2021, 01:27 PM
Aug 2021

I pity the young girls , women,boys, and any minorities who are left to suffer and die.

roamer65

(36,745 posts)
4. The hatred for Najibullah was intense.
Mon Aug 16, 2021, 01:32 PM
Aug 2021

Before he was president, he ran the Russian occupation government’s equivalent of the KGB.

He was promoted due to his willingness to commit atrocities on behalf of the Russians. Torture, killings, etc, etc.

He lived by the sword and he died by it.

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