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YERABLUR WILL BE FULL OF PEOPLE TODAY: TODAY IS MONTE'S BIRTHDAY
Times.am
Nov 25 2011
Armenia
Today is Monte Melqonyan's birthday. Name of Monte is especially dear
for those Armenians, who realize the importance of Artsakh liberation
war. Monte is a legend of our days, a phenomenon of Armenian hero.
Monte Melkonian (November 25, 1957 - June 12, 1993) was a famed
Armenian commander during Nagorno-Karabakh war. Melkonian had no prior
service record in any country's army before being placed in command of
an estimated 4,000 men in the war. He had largely built his military
experience beginning from the late 1970s and 1980s where he fought
against the various splintering factions in the Lebanese Civil War,
against Israeli troops in the Israeli invasion of Lebanon and was a
member of the Armenian organization ASALA.
An Armenian-American, Melkonian left the USA and arrived in Iran
in 1978 during the beginning of the 1979 Iranian Revolution, taking
part in demonstrations against the Shah. Following the collapse of
the Shah's monarchy in 1979, he traveled to Lebanon during the height
of the civil war and served in an Armenia militia group in the Beirut
suburb of Bourj Hammoud. In ASALA, he took part in the assassinations
of several Turkish diplomats in Europe during the early to mid-1980s
and was later arrested and sent to prison in France. In 1989, he
was released and in the following year, acquired a visa to travel
to Armenia.
Throughout his tenure, Melkonian carried several different aliases
including "Abu Sindi", "Saro", "Timothy Sean McCormack" and "Commander
Avo", the last of which was the name addressed by troops under his
command in Artsakh. The last years of his life were spent fighting with
the Nagorno Karabakh Defense Army. Monte was killed in the abandoned
Nagorno-Karabagh village of Merzuli in the early afternoon of June 12,
1993, with controversial reports about the circumstances of his death
and was subsequently buried at Yerablur cemetery in Yerevan,. He is
revered by Armenians as a national hero.
All these biographical facts can be found in the encyclopedias. But
we say nothing about Monte, if we tell just the facts. Monte's friends
tell about him with proud, with admiration, as about the real hero.
Today the Yerablur will be full of people. Many youth organizations
organize marches to Yerablur to commemorate once more one of the
brightest heroes of our times.
Times.am
Nov 25 2011
Armenia
Today is Monte Melqonyan's birthday. Name of Monte is especially dear
for those Armenians, who realize the importance of Artsakh liberation
war. Monte is a legend of our days, a phenomenon of Armenian hero.
Monte Melkonian (November 25, 1957 - June 12, 1993) was a famed
Armenian commander during Nagorno-Karabakh war. Melkonian had no prior
service record in any country's army before being placed in command of
an estimated 4,000 men in the war. He had largely built his military
experience beginning from the late 1970s and 1980s where he fought
against the various splintering factions in the Lebanese Civil War,
against Israeli troops in the Israeli invasion of Lebanon and was a
member of the Armenian organization ASALA.
An Armenian-American, Melkonian left the USA and arrived in Iran
in 1978 during the beginning of the 1979 Iranian Revolution, taking
part in demonstrations against the Shah. Following the collapse of
the Shah's monarchy in 1979, he traveled to Lebanon during the height
of the civil war and served in an Armenia militia group in the Beirut
suburb of Bourj Hammoud. In ASALA, he took part in the assassinations
of several Turkish diplomats in Europe during the early to mid-1980s
and was later arrested and sent to prison in France. In 1989, he
was released and in the following year, acquired a visa to travel
to Armenia.
Throughout his tenure, Melkonian carried several different aliases
including "Abu Sindi", "Saro", "Timothy Sean McCormack" and "Commander
Avo", the last of which was the name addressed by troops under his
command in Artsakh. The last years of his life were spent fighting with
the Nagorno Karabakh Defense Army. Monte was killed in the abandoned
Nagorno-Karabagh village of Merzuli in the early afternoon of June 12,
1993, with controversial reports about the circumstances of his death
and was subsequently buried at Yerablur cemetery in Yerevan,. He is
revered by Armenians as a national hero.
All these biographical facts can be found in the encyclopedias. But
we say nothing about Monte, if we tell just the facts. Monte's friends
tell about him with proud, with admiration, as about the real hero.
Today the Yerablur will be full of people. Many youth organizations
organize marches to Yerablur to commemorate once more one of the
brightest heroes of our times.