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Assadullah Sarwari

Former Afghan politician

Assadullah Sarwari (Persian: اسد الله سروری) is an Afghan former politician, former ambassador to the Mongolian People's Republic and convicted war criminal who belonged to the Khalq faction of the communist People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA).

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Assadullah Sarwari (Persian: اسد الله سروری) is an Afghan former politician, former ambassador to the Mongolian People's Republic and convicted war criminal who belonged to the Khalq faction of the communist People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA).

He was born in Ghazni Province.^[1]

Career

Asadullah Sarwari was born in in Ghazni Province, belonging to the Tajik ethnicity, according to his family member. Sarwari received his education in the Soviet Union and would later serve as a helicopter pilot for the Royal Afghan Air Force during the monarchy of Mohammed Zahir Shah, and later as the air force garrison commander under President Mohammed Daoud Khan, who ousted Shah in a coup in

When the Communist government took over during the Saur Revolution, in which Daoud was deposed and killed, Sarwari was appointed head of the Afghan Security Service (AGSA) in and continued to serve until he was replaced by Hafizullah Amin's nephew, Asadullah Amin in October

In September Sarwari was involved in a pro-Nur Muhammad Taraki plot to oust Prime Minister Hafizullah Amin.

After the failure of the plot, he and his comrades (the 'Gang of Four') escaped to the Soviet Embassy, where he was given asylum until the Soviet invasion and the fall of Amin in December

After the invasion, under the government of Babrak Karmal, Sarwari was first given the position of deputy prime minister, but he was soon removed from the government and posted as ambassador to Mongolia from to In January , Sarwari also became a member of the PDPA Politburo.^[2] In , he was stripped of membership in the PDPA Politburo, and expelled from the party's Central Committee five years later in July President Mohammad Najibullah appointed him as ambassador to East Germany until and then South Yemen in ^[3]

Sarwari was expelled from the party following his alleged role in support of Shahnawaz Tanai's coup attempt in

In May , after the collapse of the Afghan government, Sarwari was arrested by the Shura-e Nazar militia of Ahmad Shah Massoud and was kept in detention in Panjshir.

In , he was transferred to the National Directorate of Security (NDS).

Death sentence and imprisonment

On December 25, , he was charged with the involvement in the arbitrary arrest, torture and mass killing of hundreds of opponents during his tenure as head of Afghan intelligence for a period of one year. On February 25, , he was sentenced to death by firing squad for ordering the killing of over people; he was cleared of charges involving conspiracy against the post-Communist government.

His was the first trial involving war crimes in Afghanistan in the post-Taliban era.

Assadullah sarwari biography of albert einstein Asadullah Sarwari was born in in Ghazni Province, belonging to the Tajik ethnicity, according to his family member. Sarwari received his education in the Soviet Union and would later serve as a helicopter pilot for the Royal Afghan Air Force during the monarchy of Mohammed Zahir Shah, and later as the air force garrison commander under President Mohammed Daoud Khan, who ousted Shah in a.

The proceedings of the trial were condemned by the Amnesty International as "grossly unfair".^[4]

Reuters reported that he received a death sentence in January ^[5] In a court of appeal commuted his sentence to 19 years' imprisonment.^[6] He was released from jail in January ^[7]

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