Abdul Ali Mazari
Abdul Ali Mazari ( Persian عبدلعلی مزاری, ʿAbd al-ʿAlī Mazārī ; * 1946 in Tschahar Kint, Balch ; † March 13, 1995 in Ghazni ) was an Afghan politician. He belonged to the Hazara ethnic group and was the first general secretary of the Hezb-e Wahdat party. He was of the opinion that the solution to Afghanistan's political problems lay in the constitution of a federal state in which all ethnic groups of Afghanistan are represented and given equal rights. In March 1995 he was murdered by the Taliban .
Life
Mazari was born in a small village in the north of the Tschahar Kint district. Like most of his ethnic group, he was Shiite . He attended the Koran school in his village and initially continued his studies in Qom , Iran, where he was captured, accused of conspiracy against the Shah, and tortured. When Soviet troops invaded Afghanistan, he returned to his country to take part in the fight against the Soviet occupation .
In 1989, still in Iran, he founded the Nasr party and a little later in Afghanistan the party alliance "Hezb-e Wahdat-e Islami Afghanistan" ("Party of Islamic Unity in Afghanistan", in Dari : حزب وحدت اسلامی افغانستان), in the different resistance groups came together.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mazari, Abdul Ali (1995 (1374 AH)) Iḥyā-yi huvyyat: majmū'ah-'i sukhanrānīha-yi shahīd-i mazlūm ... Ustād 'Abd' Ali Mazāri (rah) ( Resurrecting Identity: The collected speeches of Abdul Ali Mazari ) Cultural Center of Writers of Afghanistan, Sirāj, Qum, Iran, OCLC 37243327
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| SURNAME | Mazari, Abdul Ali |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | ʿAbd al-, ʿAlī Mazārī; عبدلعلی مزاری (Persian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Afghan political leader of the Hezb-e Wahdat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1946 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tschahar Kint, Balkh , Afghanistan |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 1995 |
| Place of death | Ghazni , Afghanistan |