Today marks the forty eighth anniversary of the bloody Saur coup that ultimately collapsed Sardar Mohammed Daoud Khan's republican government. This historic event is widely considered the starting point of decades of war, instability, and extreme foreign intervention in Afghanistan.
On this exact day, the Soviet backed People's Democratic Party violently seized immense power and brutally assassinated the sitting president. Their forced modern reforms and brutal suppression of political opponents quickly triggered massive popular uprisings across the entire nation.
The Taliban government released a statement condemning this dark day as the beginning of foreign occupation and forced communist ideologies. The catastrophic consequences of this devastating military coup continue to deeply affect every segment of modern Afghan society.
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