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"The Russian take no prisoners." Rise of the Soviet prisoner of Badaber
The events of April 1985, took place in Pakistan, recognized all over the world, except the USSR. But the Western media believe - for the death of Soviet prisoners of war, the rebels in a secret prison in Badaber KGB revenge on the most brutal way
Badaber -. Fighters under the cover of
Badaber fortified area was built by the Americans at the beginning of the Cold War as a branch of the Pakistani Peshevarskogo CIA.
During the Afghan war in Badaber village located center of humanitarian aid, which allegedly was to prevent starvation among the refugees. But in fact he served as a cover for the school counterrevolutionary militants Afghan Islamic Party of Afghanistan Society where Soviet prisoners of war were kept secret, were considered the homeland missing.
Escape
30 years ago, on 26 April 1985, when the entire Soviet Union was preparing for the upcoming 40 th anniversary of Victory Day, at about 18:00 on fortress Badaber shots were heard. Taking advantage of the fact that almost all the guards of the camp went to perform the evening prayer, a group of Soviet prisoners of war, eliminating the two sentries at artillery depots, arm, freed prisoners and tried to escape.
As later recalled IRA leader, former Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani, the signal for the uprising were the actions of one of the Soviet soldiers. The guy was able to disarm the guard, which brought stew.
Then he released to freedom of the prisoners, who took possession of a weapon, left the prison caretakers. Further versions diverge. According to some sources, they tried to break through the gate to escape. In others, their goal was to Funkturm, through which they wanted to contact the embassy of the USSR. The fact that the content of Soviet prisoners of war in Pakistan would be a significant proof of the last intervention in Afghan affairs.
Sturm prison
Anyway, the rebels managed to seize the arsenal and take favorable for the destruction of guard units, positions.
On arms of the Soviet soldiers were heavy machine guns, mortars "M-62" rocket-propelled grenade.
In alarm the entire personnel of the base was raised - about 3,000 people, together with instructors from the US, Pakistan and Egypt. But all their attempts to storm the rebel positions were defeated.
23.00 The leader of the Islamic Society of Afghanistan Burhanuddin Rabbani raised a regiment of Mujahideen Khalid ibn Walid, surrounded the castle and invited the rebels to surrender in exchange for their lives. The rebels advanced demand response - communication with representatives of the embassies of the USSR, the DRA, the Red Cross and the United Nations. Hearing failure Rabbani ordered the storming of the prison.
The fatal salvo
The fierce battle that lasted all night and the losses among the Mujahideen have shown - they are not going to give up Russian. Moreover, the IRA leader, Burhanuddin Rabbani himself nearly broke up life under fire from grenade launchers. It was decided to give up on all the insurgent forces. Followed salvo firing "Castle", tanks and even the Pakistan Air Force.
And what happened next, probably forever remain a mystery. According to declassified data signals intelligence of the 40th Army, the interception of the report of one of the Pakistani pilots, according to the rebels had suffered bombing, which hit a military warehouse with ammunition stored there, modern missiles and projectiles.
That's how it is then described one of the inmates Badaber, Rustamov Nosirzhon Ummatkulovich:
"Rabbani went somewhere, and some time later, there was a gun. He gave the order to shoot. When the gun fired, the projectile landed right in the store and there was a powerful explosion. Everything blew up. No people, no buildings - nothing left. Everything is brought to the ground and threw black smoke. »
Survivors left. Those who died in the explosion, finished off advancing. However, if you believe the intercepted communications of the American consulate in Peshawar, the US Department of State: "To three Soviet soldiers managed to survive after the uprising was crushed»
. Mujahideen Mujahideen losses amounted to 100, 90 Pakistani soldiers, including 28 officers, 13 members of the Pakistani authorities and the 6 American instructors. The blast also destroyed a prison archive was that contained information about the prisoners.
To exclude a repetition of the incident, a few days after the uprising was followed by orders to the leader of the Islamic Party of Afghanistan Gulbuddin Hekmatyar:
Reaction
«Russian prisoner did not take." Despite the fact that from Pakistan all the necessary measures to cover up the incident were taken - silence on pain of death, the ban on entry into the territory to outsiders, information on Soviet prisoners of war and the brutal suppression of the uprising penetrated into the press. First wrote about this magazine pershavarsky "Sapphire", but the issue was confiscated and destroyed. Shortly thereafter, the Pakistani "Muslim newspaper" still published this news, which immediately took up the mainstream media.
Old and New World interpreted the incident differently. Europeans have written about unequal fight Russian prisoners of war for their freedom, whereas the "Voice of America," said the powerful explosion, which killed dozens of Russian prisoners and the same Afghan government soldiers. To put the record straight i, US Department of State April 28, 1985 issued a "full" information to read ?: "Territory humanitarian camp area of approximately one square mile was buried in a dense layer of shell fragments, missiles and mines, as well as human remains. The explosion was so powerful that local residents have found debris from a distance chetrёh miles from the camp, which also contained 14 Russian paratroopers, of which after the suppression of the uprising were still alive two. »
But the fact of the uprising confirmed by a representative of the International Red Cross, David Delanrants, visited May 9, 1985 the Soviet Embassy in Islambade. However, the Soviet Union was limited to note Foreign Ministry protests that full responsibility for what happened on the government of Pakistan and called upon to draw conclusions about the consequences of the state's participation in the aggression against the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan and the Soviet Union. Beyond this statement did not get. In the end, Soviet prisoners of war "could not be" in Afghanistan.
Revenge of the KGB
But there was an informal reaction to the Soviet Union. According to journalists Karlan (Kaplan) and Burki (Burki S), the Soviet security services carried out a series of reprisal operations. The fact that the Soviet Union will not leave this case without an answer, May 11, 1985 Ambassador of the Soviet Union in Pakistan Vitaly Smirnov.
"For what happened in Badaber, he bears full responsibility Islamabad" - Smirnov warned Pakistani President Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq
. In 1987, as a result of the Soviet raids on Pakistani territory killed 234 Mujahideen and Pakistani soldiers. April 10, 1988 in Odzhhri camp located between Islamabad and Rawalpindi, there was a powerful explosion of a munitions depot, which led to the death of 1,000 to 1,300 people. The investigators concluded that there was a diversion. Some time later, August 17, 1988 plane crash of President Zia-ul-Haq. This incident, Pakistani intelligence agencies are also directly linked to the activities of the KGB as a penalty for Badaber. With all that in the Soviet Union, these events have not received public publicity.
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