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ARMENIAN AVENGERS (Operation Nemesis)

Operation Nemesis was the code-name for a covert operation in 1920s to assasinate the Turkish masterminds of the Armenian Genocide. The secret operation was headed by Armen Garo, Aaron Sachaklian and Shahan Natalie 1.
"Our organization had no extermination plan. It inflicted their punishment on individuals who had been tried in absencia and found guilty of mass murder. Armenian traitors topped our list."

Arshavir Shiragian
After the end of World War I, the Ottoman military tribunal condemned to death the principal Young Turk leaders responsible for planning and execution of the Armenian Genocide. However at the conclusion of the trials the condemned were freed. They fled to European capitals living under assumed names. In the early 1920s, the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF) at their 9th World Congress held in Yerevan approved a secret resolution2 called The Special Mission (Haduk Gordz) to punish the main perpetrators of the Armenian Genocide. Between 1920-1922 the perpetrators were located and felled by the Armenian avengers.

The condemned assassinated were:

Fatali Khan Khoyski on June 19, 1920 in Tbilisi by Aram Yerganian3

Talat Pasha on March 15, 1921 in Berlin by Soghomon Tehlirian4,5

Bihbud Khan Jivanshir on July 18, 1921 in Constantinople by Misak Torlakian6

Said Halim Pasha on December 5, 1921 in Rome by Arshavir Shiragian7

Behaeddin Shakir on April 17, 1922 in Berlin by Aram Yerganian8

Jemal Azmi on April 17, 1922 in Berlin by Arshavir Shiragian8

Jemal Pasha on July 25, 1922 in Tbilisi by Stepan Dzaghigian9

Enver Pasha in 1922 in Tajikistan by Hagop Melkumov an Armenian member of the Red Army.10



Albert Isoyan: "The Dark Book"

Albert Isoyan: "The Dark Book"
The edition presents the papers, speeches, documents related to the most tragic events in the Armenian History dating back to the period between 1894 and 1923. Most of the documents voice the view of more than one hundred foreign diplomats, politicians, statesmen, historians, writers and missionaries on the Turkish crimes and the Armenian Genocide. Mod of the papers have been published in Armenian for the first time. The book features the quotations by F. Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, V. Sovolyov, M. Twain, E. Verharn, V. Korolenko, E. Hemingway, W. Gladstone, J. Bryce, W. Churchill, L. Trotsky, I, Stalin, Yo. Lepsius, H. Morgenthau, A. Mandelstam and others. The edition was compiled by Albert Isoyan and is addressed to historians, political scientists, and a wide range of readers. The edition will be issued in Russian, Turkish and English in 2012.

NIGHTMARISH YEARS OF THE REGIN OF ABDUL HAMID Hrachik Simonyan

Ideology and policy of the Turkish national bourgeoisie