Weekh Zalmian

Wíṣ Zalmiyān/Weekh Zalmyan (Pashto: ويښ زلميان or Awakened Youth) was a left-wing youth movement started in 1947 in Kandahar. The movement was focused on a nationalist agenda of modernization.[1] Following a brief period of liberalisation encouraged by Prime Minister Shah Mahmud Khan, it was dissolved in a crackdown between 1951 and 1952. The crackdown has been described as a contributing factor in the radicalisation of many leaders who later established the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan.[2] Noor Mohammad Tarakai stated he was a founder of the movement, and Babrak Karmal and Hafizullah Amin also said they had been involved.

Awakened Youth Movement
Founded1947 (1947)
Dissolved1951 (1951)
Succeeded byPeople's Democratic Party of Afghanistan
HeadquartersKandahar
Ideology
Political positionLeft-wing
International affiliationAsian Socialist Conference

See also

References
  1. Misdaq, Nabi (2006). Afghanistan: Political Frailty And External Interference. Taylor & Francis, ISBN 9780415702058
  2. Male, Beverly (1982). Revolutionary Afghanistan: A Reappraisal. Croom Helm, ISBN 9780709917168


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