Saydal Sokhandan
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Saydal Sokhandan was an Afghan poet, a Maoist activist,[1] and a student leader. He was studying at the Kabul University in the early-1970s. He organized students from Progressive Youth Organization in the university. PYO is considered the first revolutionary communist formation in Afghanistan with Maoist ideology.
Sokhandan was assassinated by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar in the early 1970s.[2]
