Settam-e-Melli

The Revolutionary Organisation of the Working People of Afghanistan (Dari: سازمان انقلابی مردم زحمتکش افغانستان) called also the ‘Against National Oppression Party’ (Dari: ‎ستم ملی, Hezb-e Setam-e Melli) more commonly known as Settam-e Melli^[a] was a political movement in Afghanistan, led by Tahir Badakhshi. The organization was affiliated with the Non-Aligned Movement, and was opposed by both the Afghan monarchy and by the Soviet-aligned People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan. Its followers were mostly Persian speakers. Most of its members were non-Pashtuns—Tajik, Uzbek, and other minorities—and it has been variously described as an anti-Pashtun separatist group and as a Tajik and Uzbek separatist group.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]} "Information on Settam-e-Melli is vague and contradictory, but it appears to have been an anti-Pashtun leftist mutation."^[7]

Against National Oppression Party ستم ملی
Leader	Tahir Badakhshi (1967–1979)
Founder	Tahir Badakhshi Ghulam Dastagir Panjsheri[8]
Founded	1966[9] or 1968[10]
Split from	People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan
Preceded by	Parcham[11]
Ideology	Socialism Marxism–Leninism–Maoism[12][13][14] Anti-Pashtun sentiment [15][16] Secularism Tajik and Turkic interests [17]
Political position	Left-wing
National affiliation	Chinese Communist Party
Politics of Afghanistan Political parties Elections

The group was founded in 1968 by Tahir Badakhshi, an intelectual, author, political activist who formerly had been a founder of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan and split with the party.^[3][6] The group emphasized "militant class struggle and mass mobilization of peasants" and recruited Tajiks, Uzbeks, Hazaras and other minorities from Kabul and the northeastern provinces.^[3]

During the communist ruling of Taraki-Amin period, the organisation members withdrew to the countryside to resist against the tyranny, though as an urban movement this removed them from their powerbase. Almost 4000 members had been arrested by the communist regime and killed. Later on, during the 1979-1986 rule o Babrak Karmal, the organisation rehabilited itself and get closer with the government.^[18] Minister of Justice.^[19][18]