Sher Mohammad Marri

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Sher Mohammad Marri
Born
Sher Mohammad Marri

1935
Died11 May 1993
Years active1960s–1990
Known forMilitancy, guerilla warfare

Sher Mohammad Marri (

Baloch Liberation Army, a militant nationalist group. A Marxist, he had close ties to leftist governments in Kabul and Moscow.[2]

Life

Sher Muhammad Marri was born in

British India
in 1935. He was also known as Babu Shero, Shero Marri, General Sherof and Baloch Tiger.

Insurgency

Sher Mohammad was the first

In 1973, Marri was arrested for his role in the struggles against the government of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.[4] Upon his release in the late 1970s, Marri went into exile in Pakistan's Marxist neighbour, the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.[citation needed] Following the fall of the Communist Afghan government in April 1992, Marri briefly returned to Pakistan but then he went to India. In his last few years, Sher Mohammad Marri saw the cause of Baloch nationalism evaporating. The Baloch nationalist movement was full of schisms and in a state of disarray. The Baloch nationalist became divided after a bitter dispute broke out between Sher Mohammad Marri and Khair Bakhsh Marri.[1]

On 11 May 1993, Sher Mohammad Marri died in a hospital, in New Delhi, India.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Obituary Sher Mohammed Marri". The Independent. 18 May 1993.
  2. . Retrieved 1 February 2019.
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  4. ^ Asian Recorder. K. K. Thomas at Recorder Press. 1973. p. clxxviii.

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