Weekh Zalmian
Political party in Afghanistan
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Wíṣ Zalmiyān/Weekh Zalmyan (Pashto: ويښ زلميان or Awakened Youth) was a left-wing youth movement started 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.
See also
- Khalq
- PDPA
- Mir Akbar Khyber
- Shah Mahmud Khan
- Sulaiman Layeq
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