Badaber Uprising

Badaber uprising

Part of the Soviet military intervention in Afghanistan and the Operation Cyclone

Date

26–27 April 1985

Location

Badaber, Peshawar District, Pakistan

Result

Pyrrhic Pakistani and Afghan militant victory

Uprising suppressed

Belligerents

Commanders and leaders

Viktor Duhovchenko †

unknown

Burhanuddin Rabbani

Ahmad Shah Massoud

Strength

unknown

Casualties and losses

12 killed

40 killed

Russian estimates:

40–90 killed

100–120 killed
6 foreign instructors killed

Pyrrhic Pakistani and Afghan militant victory

Soviet Union

The Badaber uprising (26–27 April 1985, Badaber, Pakistan) was an armed rebellion by Soviet and Afghan prisoners of war who were being held at the Badaber fortress near Peshawar, Pakistan. The prisoners fought the Pakistan army and the Afghan Mujahideen of the Jamiat-e Islami party in an unsuccessful attempt to escape. All the prisoners were killed in the ensuing siege and the fortress was destroyed.

The Badaber fortress, 24 km south of Peshawar, was a military training centre of the Afghan Mujahideen who opposed Soviet presence in Afghanistan. The Mujahideen were trained by military instructors from the United States (Operation Cyclone), Pakistan, the People's Republic of China and Egypt. The fortress was controlled by the Tajik-dominated Jamiat-e Islami party. Burhanuddin Rabbani was the party leader and self-declared president of Afghanistan. The military commander of the fortress was Ahmad Shah Massoud.

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