Abdul Majid KalakaniLudwig Adamec and Frank Clements. Conflict in Afghanistan: A Historical Encyclopedia. ABC‐Clio, 2003. (; 1939 – 8 June 1980) also known as Majid AghaHafizullah Emadi. Repression, Resistance, and Women in Afghanistan. Praeger, 2002. was an Afghan communist politician.Hafizullah Emadi. Culture and Customs of Afghanistan. Greenwood, 2005. He was the founder and leader of the Liberation Organization of the People of Afghanistan (SAMA).
Biography Majid Kalakani was born in 1939 in the village of Kalakan in Shomali Plain of ethnic Tajik origin. In 1945 his father and grandfather were arrested and executed by the Mohammad Hashim Khan regime.Hafizullah Emadi. Dynamics of Political Development in Afghanistan: The British, Russian, and American Invasions.Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. Kalakani was a Maoist activist in the 1960sGilles Dorronsoro. Revolution Unending: Afghanistan, 1979 to the Present. Columbia University Press, 2002. and a member of the movement Shalleh-ye Javiyd. In 1978, Kalakani founded SAMA.Ludwig Adamec and Frank Clements. Conflict in Afghanistan: A Historical Encyclopedia. ABC‐Clio, 2003. He was a leader of the Maoist resistance against the PDPA regime and Soviet invasion.Anthony Hyman. Afghanistan under Soviet Domination, 1964–91. Palgrave Macmillan, 1992. In 1979 he founded the United National Front of Afghanistan.Mohammed Kakar. Afghanistan: The Soviet Invasion and the Afghan Response, 1979-1982.University of California Press, 1997. On 27 February 1980 Majid Kalakani was arrested near KabulHalim Tanwir. Afghanistan: History, Diplomacy and Journalism Volume 1. Xlibris, 2013. as the result of the 3 Hut uprising against Soviet occupation.Six Days That Shook Kabul: The ‘3 Hut uprising’, first urban protest against the Soviet occupation He was executed on June 8, 1980.
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Further reading Journal of the University of Baluchistan, 1981: Abd al-Majid Kalakani as the Symbol of National Resistance.
External links Afghanistan: Celebration on the anniversary of Majid Kalakani death