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| April 26, 1985: Uprising in the Badaber Camp |
| 2024-06-25 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. Text taken from a V Kontakte post by THE GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR from Sergey Veter. A bit of Soviet military history: UPRISING IN THE BADABER CAMP..... April 26, 1985 IN MEMORY OF THOSE WHO DID NOT RECEIVE CAPTURE The uprising in the Badaber camp is an episode of the Afghan war, during which on April 26, 1985, an unequal battle took place between detachments of the Afghan Mujahideen and the regular Pakistani units that supported the army, on the one hand, and a group of Soviet and Afghan prisoners of war, on the other. The prisoners of war's attempt to free themselves from the camp failed. As a result of the two-day assault on the Badaber camp using artillery, most of the prisoners of war were killed. In 1983-1985, in the small village of Badaber in Pakistan, 10 km south of Peshawar and 24 km from the border with the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan, there was an Afghan refugee camp. Under him, the “St. Khalid ibn Walid Militant Training Center” was organized, where, under the guidance of military instructors from the USA, Pakistan, China and Egypt, future Mujahideen were trained, intending to return to Afghanistan to continue resistance against the contingent of Soviet troops. In total, 65 military instructors worked in the camp, mainly from Pakistan and Egypt. Six of them were US citizens. The training center itself belonged to the Islamic Society of Afghanistan party, one of the most influential and large opposition groups opposing Soviet influence in the region as part of Operation Cyclone. It is known that the camp also enjoyed the tacit support of the Pakistani authorities. The camp, together with the military base, occupied a huge area - about 500 hectares. In addition to adobe houses and tents, there were six storage rooms with weapons and ammunition and three prisons. Military personnel of the DRA Armed Forces and “shuravi” (Soviet prisoners of war) captured during 1983-1984 in Panjshir and Karabagh were brought here. Before this, they were kept mainly in zindans, equipped by each detachment independently. In total, in Badaber, according to various sources, there were about 40 Afghan and 14 Soviet prisoners of war. During imprisonment, any communication with Shuravi and Afghan prisoners of war was prohibited. Anyone who tried to speak was scourged. Soviet prisoners were used for the most difficult jobs; they were brutally beaten for the slightest offense; At the same time, the dushmans persuaded the prisoners to accept Islam. The prisoners of war came up with a plan: to seize a weapons warehouse in the camp and demand that the Mujahideen leadership meet with representatives of the Soviet or Afghan embassies in Islamabad. Everyone knew what they were getting into: some had been in captivity for three years already, they had seen enough of the atrocities of the radicals, so they had no way back. Read the rest at the link Ukrainian film, Afghan Breakdown, about the uprising. English subtitles: |
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