Chatschatur Malumian

Chatschatur Malumian or E. Aknuni ( Armenian Է. Ակնունի (Խաչատուր Մալումեան) , also Aknouni or Agnouni ; * 1863 in Meghri , Russian Empire ; † 1915 ) was an Armenian journalist and political activist who was murdered in the genocide of the Armenians .

He went to school in Tbilisi and studied at the University of Geneva , where he became one of Christapor Mikaelian's closest friends and contributed to his droschak journal. In 1907 he was invited to the fourth handbag conference in Vienna . In Paris he organized the general meeting of the Ottoman opposition parties to draw up the future Ottoman constitution . He welcomed the Young Turkish movement and worked in Istanbul from 1914 .

Even when the Committee on Unity and Progress ordered that Armenian intellectuals should be deported and killed on April 24, 1915 , Aknuni stood loyal to the Ottoman Interior Minister Talât Pasha and said: “It is impossible! Talaat probably doesn't know anything about it! "

Malumian then became a victim of genocide himself. He was taken from the prison in Ayaş on May 5th and taken to Diyarbakır with a military escort along with Nazaret Daghavarian , Harutün Jangülian, Karekin Khajag , Sarkis Minassian and Rupen Zartarian to be tried there before a court martial. But they were murdered by a band of bandits, led by Cherkes Ahmet and lieutenants Halil and Nazım, in a village called Karacaören shortly before their arrival in Diyarbakır. The murderers were convicted and executed in Damascus in September 1915 under Cemal Pasha . The assassination became an investigative case in the Ottoman Parliament in 1916 - led by Artin Boschgezenian , the MP for Aleppo .

literature

• K. Khudaverdyan: The Armenian Question. Encyclopedia. Yerevan, 1996, p. 26.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Armenia: The Survival of a Nation ( Memento of March 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Khachig Boghosian: My Arrest and Exile on April 24, 1915 . In: Armenian Reporter , April 24, 2001.