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Sayed Bahauddin Majrouh

Died in 1988

Sayed Bahauddin Majrouh was born in 1928 in Kunar, in eastern Afghanistan. He left for France in the early fifties and returned with a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Montpellier, became dean of the faculty of letters in Kabul, governor of Kapisa province in 1963 and 1964, then cultural counsellor in West Germany. Exiled in Peshawar in 1980, he founded the Afghan Information Centre there. He also collected the popular poetry of Pashtun women. He was killed at his door on 11 February 1988; Amnesty International attributes responsibility to members of Hezb-e-Islami.

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