June 2011

$10,000

Status Unknown

Panjshayr

RC-East

Project Description

No project description provided.

Project Goals

JUSTIFICATION: The existing 9 buildings which is what remains of Afghan Mujahedeen Commander; Ahmad Shah Massoud Headquarters Command Base in Paranda, Bazarak District, Panjshir Province is a very important place for Afghans, to remember a leader and be inspired by such a leader. These buildings used to be occupied by the Commanders of Mujahedeen lead by Massoud. To bring this Command base to life and allow the today's and future generations of Afghan Military/Police and general populace as well as foreign visitor to look at a time when one man and one group organized under him defeating a powerful Soviet Union invasion and keeping Afghanistan free is an extremely powerful message from Paranda village, Bazarak district, Panjshir Provincial government to the people of Afghanistan and to the rest of the world. This will improve populace belief that the government cares about past, today, and the future which will support the LOO, "Providing historical and national story."

 This renewed historical site will help Afghans in the Panjshir and elsewhere to continue remembering a leader. A leader whose military leadership helped to defeat a vast and powerful military assembled under Soviet Union. The importance of this historical site could well serve people of Afghanistan and be a spring to consume the thoughts of freedom and to bear arms against a tyrant force and eventual defeat of world superpower. To resonate this via reconstruction of this site in Parandeh would give legitimacy to the Government of Panjshir to recreate itself reminding its populace that it cares about their history. The message is we always could use more leaders, leaders such as Massoud, brave, smart and a national hero.

 This project is in effect to create a very deliberate and small old are to portray as a museum to the visitor. One would occupy the place with material from that era, such as papers, maps, communication gears and weapons for protecting the place as well as weapons carried by the members and leadership of mujahedeen.

COORDINATION: This project has been coordinated with the Governor of Panjshir and is on the Provincial Development Plan, as well with the District Government of Bazarak. It has also been coordinated between PRT, DoS, and USAID.

Results

Results unknown.

Updates

Preliminary visit to the project site and initial site visit performed, 18 APril 2011.

Project is selected to add historical and cultural value to he late Mujahedeen leader , Ahmad Shah Massoud.