Yunkurin kisan Mohammad Zahir Shah

A ranar 4 ga Nuwamba 1991, Mohammad Zahir Shah, tsohon Sarkin Afghanistan, Paulo Jose de Almeida Santos, wani ɗan Portugal da ya tuba zuwa addinin Islama, ya yi masa wuka kuma ya ji rauni, a gidansa da ke Roma, inda yake zaune a gudun hijira tun bayan juyin mulkin Afghanistan na 1973.  

 Tarihi 
A shekara ta 1973, yayin da yake warkewa daga magani a Roma, an cire Zahir Shah daga mulki a juyin mulki mara jini karkashin jagorancin dan uwansa kuma tsohon Firayim Minista, Mohammad Daoud Khan, wanda ya soke mulkin mallaka kuma ya kafa jamhuriya tare da kansa a matsayin shugaban kasa. A watan Afrilu na shekara ta 1978, an kori Daoud Khan kuma an kashe shi a Juyin Juya Halin Saur, juyin mulkin soja wanda jam'iyyar People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) ta jagoranta.

A watan Disamba na shekara ta 1979, Tarayyar Soviet ta mamaye Afghanistan, inda ta kashe Babban Sakataren PDPA Hafizullah Amin kuma ta maye gurbinsa da Babrak Karmal, inda ta fara yakin Soviet-Afghan. A shekara ta 1987, Mohammad Najibullah ya yi nasarar korar Karmal a cikin gwagwarmayar iko kuma ya kirkiro sabon kundin tsarin mulki, ya dawo da kasar zuwa sunanta kafin 1978 na "Jamhuriyar Afghanistan" kuma ya cire akidar kwaminisanci gaba ɗaya don goyon bayan kasuwa kyauta.

A karkashin Najibullah, an dawo da 'yancin Zahir Shah kuma gwamnatin Najibulah da Soviets sun yi ƙoƙari su shigar da shi cikin tattaunawar don kawo karshen Yaƙin basasar Afghanistan, gami da yiwuwar maido da mulkin mallaka. Zahir Shah an dauke shi sananne a tsakanin yawancin 'yan Afghanistan, yankunan karkara da birane.

 Yunkurin kisan kai 
Don hana Zahir Shah dawowa daga gudun hijira kuma mai yiwuwa ya zama shugaban sabuwar gwamnati, Osama bin Laden, shugaban Al-Qaeda, ya umarci wani ɗan Angola ɗan Portugal da ya tuba zuwa addinin Musulunci, Paulo Jose de Almeida Santos, ya kashe tsohon sarki. Duk da yake da farko ana zargin cewa ƙungiyoyin Mujahideen da ke adawa da dawowar Zahir Shah ne suka shirya shi, Santos ya tabbatar da cewa Bin Laden yana da hannu a cikin yunkurin kisan kai a shekara ta 2002. 

A ranar 4 ga Nuwamba 1991, Santos ya shiga gidan Zahir Shah a Roma yana nuna kansa a matsayin ɗan jarida. Bayan gudanar da hira da shi, Santos ya ce "Yanzu dole ne in kashe ka", kafin in soke Zahir Shah a cikin aljihun ƙirjyarsa tare da Mai yankan takarda mai kaifi; rayuwar tsohon sarki ta sami ceto ta hanyar tin na Café Crème cigarillos. Santos ya soke shi a wuyansa sau da yawa, kafin tsohon Janar Abdul Wali, tsohon kwamandan Sojojin Afghanistan da surukin sarki ya mamaye shi. An kai Zahir Shah asibiti kuma daga baya ya warke, tare da yanke wa Santos hukuncin shekaru goma a kurkuku mai tsaron gida a Rebibbia.[1][2][3]

 Dubi kuma 

 Yaƙin basasar Afghanistan (1989-1992) 
 Sakamako na Kasa (Afghanistan) 

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