Editing Hafizullah Amin (section)

==Post-death==
On 2 January 1980 on the PDPA's 15th anniversary, Karmal who was now the new General Secretary called Amin a "conspirator, professional criminal and recognised spy of the U.S.", as reported in the ''[[Kabul New Times]]''. [[Anahita Ratebzad]], the education minister, said about Amin:

: ...this wrathy, cruel and criminal murderer who had made terror and suppression and crushing of every opposition force part and parcel of his way of rule, and started every day with new acts of destruction, putting opponents of his bloody regime, group by group, to places of torture, jails, and slaughterhouses.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://content.library.arizona.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p16127coll6/id/11040/rec/1|work=[[The Kabul Times|Kabul New Times]]|date=2 January 1980|title=VOL. XVII NO. 2|access-date=21 January 2018|archive-date=26 December 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181226105806/http://content.library.arizona.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p16127coll6/id/11040/rec/1|url-status=live}}</ref>