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Night letters praise Afghan resistance
Night letters or shabnama reach Kabul and beyond as mimeographed sheets and cassette messages from the anti-Soviet underground. They voice opposition to the Kar mal regime, honor fighters and victims of April school revolt, and even echo a dissident women group calling Karmal a slave of the Russians. The letters emerged after the 1978 coup that ousted Daoud.
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New Delhi
India
Kabul
Afghanistan
Babrak Karmal
Moscow
Uni
Shabnama
Society of Revolutionary Afghan Women
Karmal
Mohammed Daoud