April 2 marks birth anniversary of Soghomon Tehlirian

PanARMENIAN.Net - April 2 marks the birth anniversary of Soghomon Tehlirian, a member of the Nemesis covert operation in 1920s to assassinate the Turkish masterminds of the Armenian Genocide.

Avenger Tehlirian assassinated Talat Pasha on March 15, 1921 in Berlin. Two of his accomplices in that operation were Hagop Zorian (Hazor) and Hratch Papazian. He was captured, tried and found not guilty. After the trial, he 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. Having been told by the ARF that Turkish agents were closing on him in 1956 he moved to the United States. He died in 1960 in San Francisco. He is buried in Fresno, Ca. at the Ararat Cemetery.