Abdul Ali Mazari

Abdul Ali Mazari (Persian عبدلعلی مزاری, ʿ Abd al- ʿ Alī Mazari; * 1946 in Chahar Kint, Balkh, Afghanistan, † March 1995 in Ghazni, Afghanistan ) was a political leader of the Hezb -e Wahdat during and following the Soviet invasion in Afghanistan. In 1995 he was murdered by the Taliban.

Mazari, a member of the Hazara ethnic group, was of the opinion that the solution of Afghanistan's political problems lies in the constitution of any state, representing all the ethnic groups in Afghanistan and are equipped with the same rights.

Life

Mazari was born in a small village in the north of the district of Chahar Kint. Like most members of his ethnic group, he was a Shiite. He attended Koranic school of his village and continued his studies first in Qom in Iran, where he caught, accused of conspiracy against the Shah and was tortured. When Soviet troops invaded Afghanistan, he returned to his country to participate in the fight against the Soviet occupation.

1989, still in Iran, he founded the Nasr party and a little later in the Afghanistan Parteieinbündnis " Hezb -e Wahdat -e Islami Afghanistan " ("Party of Islamic Unity in Afghanistan," in Dari: حزب وحدت اسلامی افغانستان ), in the various resistance groups came together.