Central Committee of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan

The Central Committee was a ruling organ for the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA).^[1]

History

The first Central Committee was held on 1 January 1965 when the PDPA was established. Nur Mohammad Taraki was elected General Secretary of the PDPA at this meeting. Four members of the Central Committee were elected into parliament, including Babrak Karmal and Anahita Ratebzad one of four women in the Afghan parliament at that time. Future Afghan leaders Taraki and Hafizullah Amin was not elected into parliament. Many of the members selected to the Central Committee was unknown or unheard of by most Afghans.^[1]

Under the regime of Mohammad Daoud Khan between 1973-78, it existed a shady Central Committee in the government linked to the communists. While the members or their work was never spelled out or publicly announced to the Afghan people. By 1977, the Central Committee in Daoud's government had been eliminated and replaced with rightists, by the early stages in 1978 before the Saur Revolution Daoud gave various hints of re-opening the Central Committee in his government. After Mir Akbar Khyber's assassination in 1978, the government law enforcement in the country arrested Central Committee members after protests in Kabul. After Taraki's resignation and later his death Amin assumed all Taraki titled according to the Plenum of the Central Committee.^[1]

When the Soviet intervention in 1979, Amin and his remaining loyal government went into hiding. Eventually concealing themselves in the Darulaman Palace. One report said Amin when into hiding after being voted down by the Central Committee. Most of the Central Committee members who supported Amin would be executed or killed by the government under the rule of Karmal or the Soviet Union. The surviving supporters fell into a total eclipse.^[1]

References

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