James Karnusian
Rev. James Karnusian (1926, Beirut, Lebanon - April 8, 1998, Bern, Switzerland) was a Swiss-Armenian pastor, writer and public activist, allegedly one of the founders of Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia militant organization,[1] alongside Hagop Hagopian (real name Harutiun Tagushian) and Kevork Ajemian, a literary figure and publisher of Spurk.
Biography
A son of Armenian Genocide survivors from Musa Ler,[2] Karnusian was born in 1926 in a camp of refugees in Beirut.[3] He studied at the universities of Greece and Switzerland. In 1979 he initiated the first Armenian World Congress in Paris.[4] In 1983 on the occasion of the 60th centenary of the Treaty of Lausanne, James Karnusian organized a Pan-Armenian convention in Lausanne attended by delegates from 17 countries.[5] "Our priority remains the recovery of Western Armenia occupied by Turkey," he explained.[6]
In 1992 he co-founded the Switzerland-Armenia Association (GSA - Gesellschaft Schweiz-Armenien) together with Hans Schellenberg, civil servant in the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, and former deputy of National Council of Switzerland Alexander Euler.[5]
Books
- Back to the Ararat Highlands, printed in Switzerland, 1976 (original title: Վերադարձ Դէպի Այրարատեան Լեռնաշխարհ).
- Return to the Ararat Plateau: Pan-Armenian Liberation Movement, by James Karnusian, translated by Aris Sevag, AR Publishing, 1979, 43 pages
References
- ↑ Rev. James Karnusian, retired pastor and one of three persons to establish ASALA, dies in Switzerland // The Armenian Reporter International, 18 April 1998
- ↑ Zwischen Rhein und Arax.: Neunhundert Jahre deutsch-armenische Beziehungen. Enno Meyer, Ara J. Berkian. Holzberg, 1988, p. 164
- ↑ Le combat arménien: entre terrorisme et utopie, by Armand Gaspard - 1984 - P. 99
- ↑ Le Paris des étrangers depuis 1945, by Antoine Marès, Pierre Milza, 1994, p. 231
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Oliver Zwahlen: The Genocide of The Armenians and its Reaffirmation in Switzerland (Swiss Master Thesis in German)
- ↑ La Comunità internazionale: rivista trimestrale della Società italiana per l'organizzazione internazionale, Volume 39, CEDAM, 1984, p. 560
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