In 1978, the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan was formed after the Saur Revolution. The Afghanistan leadership was overthrown with the assistance of the Soviet Union.
Mohammad Taraki Nur, the Afghan president, had earlier implemented socialist land and modernization reforms into effect. He also changed the marriage customs practices, which the Afghans felt threatened their Islamist culture. However, Taraki was murdered the following year and replaced by Amin Hafuzulla.
This led to the response of a rebel group known as the Mujahideen; the country was thrown into a state of civil unrest, which caused a start of a war between Soviet Occupation troops and the Mujahideen rebels.
On July 1, an aged Afghan was charged with the highest punishable offence, Treason. He was accused of releasing the names of nine rebel fighters to the Soviet troops, who then arrested and shot them.
His trial was held in a mountain camp some kilometres northwest of Kabul by three clerics appointed by the court. The trial was, however, brief as he kept mute all through the entire process. A verdict of the death sentence was passed on him at 5.30 p.m. With his hands roughly tied to his back, he was escorted outside the camp alongside a French photographer Alain Minget.
They stopped as they approached a stream, his hands were untied, and he was allowed to wash his face and arms. Turning towards Mecca, he knelt and made final peace with his maker. While praying, the mullah executioner fired at him,
Stopping at a stream, the older man bent down, waited for his hands to be untied, and carefully washed his face and arms. He then knelt facing Mecca and made his final peace with Allah, where the mullah executioner fired him.
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