Uzbeks under Gen. Rashid Dostum (Afghanistan)

Last modified: 2005-01-29 by santiago dotor
Keywords: uzbek | dostum (abdul rashid) | people's muslim movement of afghanistan | jumbesh-i-milli | northern alliance |
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all three by Santiago Dotor

• Description
• People's Muslim Movement of Afghanistan (Jumbesh-i-Milli, used by Gen. Dostum as flag of the North Afghanistan government at Mazar-e-Sharif)

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• Mujahideen and anti-Taliban groups 1992-2001 (Afghanistan)
• Afghanistan

In the 1980s I took notes from TV programmes in ZDF-heute, heute-Journal, ARD-tagesthema, ARD-tagesschau and SFB-Nachrichtensendungen. The following flags could be seen in reports about the war in Afghanistan between the Mujahideen and the Soviet Union, used by the Uzbeks under General Dostum:

• horizontal stripes ochre sand green-red-black (1:1:1), no emblem (until ca. 1989), sometimes hoisted with colours in reverse order;
• horizontal stripes black-red-green (1:1:2), no emblem, ocassionally with emblem (though a different emblem to that in FOTW).
• only in TV reports from Mazar-e-Sharif (eg. BBC on Euronews) could the horizontally striped, black-red-green (1:1:2) flag with emblem on the canton (same emblem as in FOTW) be seen. Elsewhere the black-white-green flag was to be seen.

Jens Pattke, 19 December 2001

Jumbesh-i-Milli, used by Gen. Dostum as flag of the North Afghanistan government at Mazar-e-Sharif

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by Santiago Dotor, coat-of-arms from the Flag Documentation Centre of the Netherlands

I would like to ask for confirmation of the present flag of North Afghanistan anti-Taliban regime in Mazar-e-Sharif. According to Jaume Ollé's Vexillological history of Afghanistan: VII: Islamic Emirate its flag is horizontal black-red-green tricolour (1:1:1) with coat-of-arms near the hoist. As far as I know (see Petr Exner's Czech Vexillological Pages), this tricolour should be 1:1:2 and the coat-of-arms should be placed