Weekh Zalmian

Wíṣ Zalmiyān/Weekh Zalmyan (Pashto: ويښ زلميان or Awakened Youth) was a youth movement started in Afghanistan in 1947 in Kandahar. The movement was focused on a nationalist agenda of modernization.[1] Following a brief period of liberalisation encouraged by Prime Minister Shah Mahmud Khan, it was dissolved in a crackdown between 1951 and 1952. The crackdown has been described as a contributing factor in the radicalisation of many leaders who later established the People’s Democratic Party of Afghanistan.[2] Noor Mohammad Tarakai stated he was a founder of the movement, and Babrak Karmal and Hafizullah Amin also said they had been involved.

References

  1. ↑ Misdaq, Nabi (2006). Afghanistan: Political Frailty And External Interference. Taylor & Francis, ISBN 9780415702058
  2. ↑ Male, Beverly (1982). Revolutionary Afghanistan: A Reappraisal. Croom Helm, ISBN 9780709917168


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