Hampartsoum Boyadjian

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Hampartsoum Boyadjian or Medzn Mourad (Mourad the Great) (1867 - 1915) was an Armenian fedayee and political activist. He was born in Hajin (Cilicia). His senior brother was the famous Hunchakian leader Medzn Girayr.

Mourad joined the Hunchakian party when he was a medical student in Constantinople. In 1890, he took part in the Kum Kapu demonstration. In 1894, he was a leader of the Sasun Resistance. In 1908, he returned to Constantinople and was elected member of the Ottoman parliament for the region of Adana.

Mourad, a Hunchakian who never gave up on the dream of a united and independent Armenia was labelled, like thousands of others, an undesirable by the Young Turk Government, thus he was among the first to be arrested in April 1915 during the eve of the Armenian Genocide, and sent to Kayseri, where he was severely tortured in prison and after a trial in July, hanged on 24 August 1915, with 12 fellow friends.^[1]^[2]