Mohammad Nabi Azimi

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Mohammad Nabi Azimi
Nickname(s)Nabi
Born11 August 1943
Soviet-Afghan war
Other workWriter

General Mohammad Nabi Azimi. (Dari: جنرال محمد نبی عظیمی) was the Deputy Defense Minister of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (DRA) who played a critical role in the fall of President Mohammad Najibullah. General Mohammad Nabi Azimi was an ethnic Tajik who belonged to the Parcham faction of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan.[1][2][3][4] He was also the ambassador to the United Kingdom.[5]

In 1986, General Azimi was in charge of the DRA forces at the Second Battle of Zhawar in Paktia Province which was waged against mujahideen forces under Jalaluddin Haqqani. The large-scale offensive against the mujahideen base quickly ran into difficulties: an inexperienced commando brigade was wiped out in a botched heliborne assault against fortified positions. Some commandos mistakenly landed in Pakistan. General Azimi withdrew to Kabul on "important business" and ordered the arrest of the helicopter unit commander. He was replaced by another DRA officer and a Soviet general took over the operation.[6]

In 1990, along with General

Hezb-i Islami.[7]

In early 1992, DRA leader

Abdul Wahid Baba Jan. General Azimi appeared on Afghanistan National Television saying, "I assure my countrymen that we will have peace in the very near future. There is no need for war anymore."[8]

On March 21, General Azimi made contact with General Dostum, and on April 15, he flew 600-1000 of General Dostum's troops into

Kabul Airport and took control of it. The next day in Kabul, Najibullah confronted General Azimi and the other generals and accused them of treason. Apparently afraid that General Azimi had taken control of his security detail, he then tried to flee to the airport. But, finding it controlled by hostile forces, he was forced to take refuge in a United Nations compound.[9] General Azimi then made contact with resistance leader Ahmad Shah Massoud, and urged him to seize the capital. He hoped that he might effect a peaceful transition of power like Dostum had managed in Mazar-i-Sharif. However, Massoud was unwilling to do this, so long as an agreement to form a government had not been reached between the Pakistan-based mujahideen parties. He entered Kabul on April 25 in response to an offensive by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, who had allied with officers from the Khalq faction to infiltrate the capital. Fighting between the opposing factions broke out immediately.[10]

General Azimi has since written many books, one of which is titled "Ordu va Siyasat Dar Seh Daheh Akheer-e Afghanistan" ("Army and Politics in the Last Three Decades in Afghanistan") (Peshawar: Marka-e Nashrati Mayvand, 1998).

References

  1. ISBN 0-300-05963-9
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  2. ^ "Afghan Leader Najibullah Forced to Resign by Rebels - the Tech".
  3. ^ "Afghan Leader Forced Out by Army, Rebels". Los Angeles Times. 17 April 1992.
  4. ^ Gargan, Edward A. (26 April 1992). "After 14 Years, Afghan Guerrillas Easily Take Prize". The New York Times.
  5. ISBN 978-1-7283-8701-7
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  6. ^ Grau, Lester W.; Ali Ahmad Jalali (September 2001). "THE CAMPAIGN FOR THE CAVES:THE BATTLES FOR ZHAWAR IN THE SOVIET-AFGHAN WAR". Globalsecurity.org. Retrieved 24 September 2010.
  7. ^ Afghanistan Justice Project. "Casting Shadows: War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity, 1978-2001." 2005. Accessed at: http://www.afghanistanjusticeproject.org/ [Accessed on 10 November 2009], pg 55.
  8. ^ "Afghan Guerrillas Order Kabul Army to Surrender City". The New York Times. 18 April 1992.
  9. ISBN 0-333-80291-8
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  10. ^ Rubin, pp. 270–271
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