Arshavir Shirakian (Gdagn er Nahadagnerun, 1982)
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Arshavir Shirakian (Gdagn er Nahadagnerun, 1982)Secondary Title
Կտակն էր նահատակներունDescription
“It Was the Testament for the Martyrs” is associated with the Armenian Revolutionary Federation’s Operation Nemesis and the broader movement to punish those responsible for the Armenian Genocide, particularly the case of Grigor Tehlirian, who in 1921 killed Talaat Pasha in Germany after recognizing him as a principal architect of the genocide, an act that inspired Armenians to remember the genocide and to seek justice against its perpetrators. The memoir was written by Arshavir Shirakian, an Armenian writer and activist born in Constantinople around 1900, who as a survivor of the genocide became involved with the ARF’s clandestine justice campaign known as Operation Nemesis in the early 1920s, participating in actions against several former Ottoman officials held responsible by Armenians for organizing mass atrocities; after emigrating to the United States in the 1920s, Shirakian remained active in Armenian community life and in 1965, on the fiftieth anniversary of the genocide, published his memoir “It Was the Testament for the Martyrs,” reflecting on loss, memory, and the moral imperative of accountability, before his death in New Jersey in 1973.Category
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