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Chaudhary Fateh Mohammad, May 1923 - May 2020
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COMRADE CHAUDARY FATEH MOHAMMAD, an icon of the communist movement in Pakistan, founder of the peasants’ movement and lifelong campaigner for the rights of oppressed people, passed away on Monday, 25 May 2020 at 4.45am.
At 97, he had given 72 years of his life to the Marxist movement. He was arrested by every government of Pakistan between 1951 and 2009 and he spent over 18 years in jails and torture centres.
Comrade Mohammad was born in May 1923 in a lower middle-class family in the small village of Chaharke near Jalandhar. After his BA exam, he joined the British Army and travelled to to fight fascism in WW2. In the wake of Partition in 1947, he migrated to Pakistan and settled in a village in Toba Tek Singh. Within two months of his migration, he joined the migrant-rights movement for the settlement of migrants from India and was elected its regional head.
Mohammad joined the Communist Party of Pakistan in 1948 and became a member of its district committee with the special task of reorganising the Kissan (peasant) movement. He started full-time work for the party and played an instrumental role in organising the Kissan conferences.
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