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the Hazaras ethnic group who were suspected of supporting the resis-
tance. "One hundred fifty of them were buried alive by the bulldoz-
ers, and the rest were doused with gasoline and burned alive." In
September 1979 the prison authorities admitted that 12.000 prisoners
had been eliminated. The director of Pol-e-Charki told anyone who
would listen: "We'll leave only 1 million Afghans alive – that's all we
need to build socialism." 53
All of these practices were directed from Moscow. In fact, all the in
Afghanistan had been planned beforehand by the Soviet Union. The
Soviet regime had decided to have the communists in Afghanistan
stage a coup and then occupy the whole country under the pretext of
defending that so-called "democratic" regime. As many historians now
agree, it was the fact that the communists saw the rapid rise of Islam at
the time as a threat which prompted Moscow to take those measures.
Finally, on Dec. 27, 1979, the Red Army used the resistance by the

The Red Army invaded Afghanistan in 1979, and
remained in the country as an occupying force
for a decade. For the people of Afghanistan, the
occupation was synonymous with massacre, op-
pression, violence and torture.
Newsweek, February 11, 1979