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Babrak Karmal (Dari/Pashto: ببرک کارمل; born
Sultan Hussein; 6
January 1929 – 1 or 3
December 1996) was an
Afghan communist revolutionary and politician...
- led by
Taraki and Amin, and the
moderate Parcham faction led by
Babrak Karmal. The
Khalqists emerged victorious and the bulk of the
Parchamites were subsequently...
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toppled Amin's rule and
placed Babrak Karmal as head of the state, the
party and the government.
During Karmal's rule,
Najibullah became head of the KHAD...
- turn
tried to
neutralize Karmal by
appointing new
members to the
committee who were his own supporters.
After this incident,
Karmal offered his resignation...
- new far-left
organization co-founded by Nur
Muhammad Taraki and
Babrak Karmal. He ran as a
candidate in the 1965
parliamentary election but
failed to...
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invade Afghanistan on
December 24, 1979,
execute Amin, and
install Babrak Karmal as president. In the West, the
Soviet invasion of
Afghanistan was considered...
- probation.
Alfie Karmal, the son of a
Palestinian father and Gr**** mother, was ten
years older than
Mills when they met in 1986.
Karmal bought her new clothes...
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Kabul and
killing Amin. A Soviet-organized regime, led by Parcham's
Babrak Karmal but
inclusive of both
factions (Parcham and Khalq),
filled the vacuum. Soviet...
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Soviet forces were
taken as prisoners, and the
Soviets installed Babrak Karmal, the
leader of the PDPA's
Parcham faction, as Amin's successor. Veterans...
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Babrak Karmal.
Symbolic of the
different backgrounds of the two
factions were the fact that Taraki's
father was a poor
Pashtun herdsman while Karmal's father...
