Party killing
Seventeen members of Afghanistan's ruling Marxist Party were killed in two. apparent outbreaks of intraparty feuding several days before a party congress urged members to unite, separate Western diplomatic reports from Kabul have said. Disunity has plagued the party since shortly after it seized power in a 1978 military coup. The Soviet Union, which intervened militarily on December 27, 1979, has failed to reconcile differences between the party's two factions. — New' Delhi.
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Press, 20 March 1982, Page 12
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