 In April, Najibullah and his communist government fell to the mujahideen, who replaced Najibullah with a new governing council for the country.Civil war continued when the former mujahideen guerillas, which were never under a united command during the period from 1979 to 1992, failed to create a functioning unity government in 1992.The civil war continued and about 400,000 Afghan civilians had lost their lives in the 1990s, eventually leading to Taliban rule.