1979 Herat uprising (15 mar 1979 año – 20 mar 1979 año)

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The 1979 Herat uprising was an insurrection that took place in and around the city of Herat, Afghanistan in March 1979. It included both a popular uprising and a mutiny of Afghan Army troops against the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (DRA). The communist regime at first appealed to its Soviet allies for help, but the Soviet leadership declined to intervene. After the insurgents seized and held the city for about a week, the regime was able to retake it with its own forces, and the subsequent aerial bombardment and recapture of Herat left up to 25,000 of its inhabitants dead.

The Herat uprising was the worst outbreak of armed violence in the country in 50 years, and was the deadliest incident in the 1978-1979 period before the start of the Soviet occupation.

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