Badaber uprising

Badaber uprising
Part of Operation Cyclone during the Soviet–Afghan War
Date26–27 April 1985
Location
Badaber, Peshawar District, Pakistan
Result

Pyrrhic victory for Afghan mujahideen and Pakistani forces

  • Soviet/Afghan POWs destroyed Badaber fort and weapon caches
  • Escape attempt unsuccessful, all prisoners killed
Belligerents
Soviet Union Soviet POWs
Afghanistan DR Afghan POWs

Afghan mujahideen

Pakistan Pakistan[1]

Supported by:
United States United States[2]

Egypt Egypt[3][4]

China China
Commanders and leaders

Soviet Union Viktor Dukhovchenko †

Soviet Union Aleksandr Alekseevich Matveev †		 Burhanuddin Rabbani
Ahmad Shah Massoud
Pakistan Akhtar Abdur Rahman
Strength

Soviet Union Soviet Union:

12 POWs
Afghanistan Democratic Republic Of Afghanistan: 40 POWs
Soviet UnionAfghanistan Total:
52 personnel		 70 guards
Pakistan Unknown
United States Unknown
Casualties and losses

Afghanistan Afghanistan:
40 dead

Soviet Union Soviet Union:
11 dead

Jamiat-e Islami:[5]

  • 100–120 killed
    (Soviet claim)[1]
    20 killed (Jamiat claim)
  • 3 Grad MLRS destroyed
  • 2 million rounds of ammunition destroyed
  • thousands of rockets destroyed

Pakistan Pakistan:[5]

  • 40–90 killed (Soviet claim)

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 Afghan Mujahideen of the Jamiat-e Islami party (who were supported by the Pakistani XI Corps and American CIA advisors) in an attempt to escape.

  1. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference Shkurlatov (2006) was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference Pahmutov (2005) was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ http://www.bratishka.ru/archiv/2006/7/2006_7_5.php "АРХИВ: Последнее па Пешаварского вальса".
  4. ^ "Бадабера: неизвестный подвиг". S. Pahmutov. "Фонд "Русская Цивилизация"", 11 November 2007.
  5. ^ a b "Русская линия / Библиотека периодической печати: Бадабера: неизвестный подвиг". rusk.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 20 July 2023.