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Majid Kalakani

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Native name
  
مجید کلکانی

Movement
  
Maoism

Occupation
  
poet

Born
  
1939
Afghanistan

Known for
  
Revolutionary leader in Afghanistan

Died
  
8 June 1980, Kabul, Afghanistan

Organizations
  

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Abdul Majid Kalakani (Persian: مجید کلکانی‎‎; 1939 - 8 June 1980) also known as Majid Agha was an Afghan political revolutionary and poet. He was the founder and leader of the maoist Liberation Organization of the People of Afghanistan (SAMA).

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Biography

Majid Kalakani was born in 1939 in village Kalakan in Shomali Plain. In 1945 his father and grandfather were arrested and executed by Mohammad Hashim Khan regime. Majid Kalakani was maoist activist from the 1960s and member of movement Shalleh-ye Javiyd. In 1978 Kalakani founded SAMA. He was a leader of maoist resistance against the PDPA regime and Soviet invasion. In 1979 he founded the United National Front of Afghanistan. On 27 February 1980 Majid Kalakani was arrested near Kabul as the result of the uprising against Soviet occupation. He was executed on June 8, 1980.

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Majid Kalakani Wikipedia