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Soghomon Tehlirian assassinated Talaat Pasha on March 15, 1921
Operation Nemesis was a covert operation by the Armenian Revolutionary
Federation carried out from 1920 to 1922, during which a number of
former Ottoman political and military figures were assassinated for
their role in the Armenian Genocide.
Ottoman Armenian Soghomon Tehlirian assassinated the former Grand
Vizir Talaat Pasha in Berlin in the presence of many witnesses on
March 15, 1921 as an act of vengeance for his role in orchestrating
the Armenian Genocide. The move was a part of the Dashnak Party's
Operation Nemesis.
March 15, 2014
PanARMENIAN.Net - Tehlirian was tried for murder, but was eventually
acquitted by the German court. The trial of Tehlirian was a rather
sensationalized event at the time, with Tehlirian being defended by
three attorneys, including Dr. Theodor Niemeyer, professor of Law at
Kiel University.
The trial examined not only Tehlirian's actions but also Tehlirian's
conviction that Talaat Pasha was the main author of the Armenian
Genocide. The defense attorneys made no attempt to deny the fact that
Tehlirian had killed a man, and instead focused on the influence of
the Armenian Genocide on Tehlirian's mental state. When asked by the
judge if he felt any sort of guilt, Tehlirian remarked, "I do not
consider myself guilty because my conscience is clear ... I have killed
a man. But I am not a murderer."
It took the jury slightly over an hour to render a verdict of "not
guilty". The "not guilty" verdict of the jury was based on the account
of Tehlirian's experience during the Genocide.
After the trial, Tehlirian moved to the former Yugoslavia where he
lived for nearly thirty years. After the end of World War Two he and
his family fled to Casablanca. In 1956 Tehlirian moved to the United
States. He died in 1960 in San Francisco.
The Armenian Genocide and the 1921 trial of Soghomon Tehlirian set
precedents for the 20th century. "For the first time in legal
history," a German-born American lawyer Robert Kempner wrote in 1980
in retrospect, the Berlin court recognized the principle (if not de
jure , then at least through the trial's overall course and impact on
the outside world) "that gross violations of human rights, and
especially genocide that is committed by a government can be contested
by foreign states, and that [such foreign intervention] does not
constitute impermissible meddling in the internal affairs of another
state."
http://www.panarmenian.net/eng/details/176904/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuWX9j-Nh-g&list=PLE91544EBA9D5E34F
Operation Nemesis was a covert operation by the Armenian Revolutionary
Federation carried out from 1920 to 1922, during which a number of
former Ottoman political and military figures were assassinated for
their role in the Armenian Genocide.
Ottoman Armenian Soghomon Tehlirian assassinated the former Grand
Vizir Talaat Pasha in Berlin in the presence of many witnesses on
March 15, 1921 as an act of vengeance for his role in orchestrating
the Armenian Genocide. The move was a part of the Dashnak Party's
Operation Nemesis.
March 15, 2014
PanARMENIAN.Net - Tehlirian was tried for murder, but was eventually
acquitted by the German court. The trial of Tehlirian was a rather
sensationalized event at the time, with Tehlirian being defended by
three attorneys, including Dr. Theodor Niemeyer, professor of Law at
Kiel University.
The trial examined not only Tehlirian's actions but also Tehlirian's
conviction that Talaat Pasha was the main author of the Armenian
Genocide. The defense attorneys made no attempt to deny the fact that
Tehlirian had killed a man, and instead focused on the influence of
the Armenian Genocide on Tehlirian's mental state. When asked by the
judge if he felt any sort of guilt, Tehlirian remarked, "I do not
consider myself guilty because my conscience is clear ... I have killed
a man. But I am not a murderer."
It took the jury slightly over an hour to render a verdict of "not
guilty". The "not guilty" verdict of the jury was based on the account
of Tehlirian's experience during the Genocide.
After the trial, Tehlirian moved to the former Yugoslavia where he
lived for nearly thirty years. After the end of World War Two he and
his family fled to Casablanca. In 1956 Tehlirian moved to the United
States. He died in 1960 in San Francisco.
The Armenian Genocide and the 1921 trial of Soghomon Tehlirian set
precedents for the 20th century. "For the first time in legal
history," a German-born American lawyer Robert Kempner wrote in 1980
in retrospect, the Berlin court recognized the principle (if not de
jure , then at least through the trial's overall course and impact on
the outside world) "that gross violations of human rights, and
especially genocide that is committed by a government can be contested
by foreign states, and that [such foreign intervention] does not
constitute impermissible meddling in the internal affairs of another
state."
http://www.panarmenian.net/eng/details/176904/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuWX9j-Nh-g&list=PLE91544EBA9D5E34F