Sacred Justice : The Voices and Legacy of the Armenian Operation Nemesis

ISBN-13: 9781412855037 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 408 str.

Marion Mesrobian MacCurdy

Opis

Sacred Justice is a cross-genre book that uses narrative, memoir, unpublished letters, and other primary and secondary sources to tell the story of a group of Armenian men who organized Operation Nemesis, a covert operation created to assassinate the Turkish architects of the Armenian Genocide. The leaders of Operation Nemesis took it upon themselves to seek justice for their murdered families, friends, and compatriots.Sacred Justice includes a large collection of previously unpublished letters, found in the upstairs study of the author's grandfather, Aaron Sachaklian, one of the leaders of Nemesis, that show the strategies, personalities, plans, and dedication of Soghomon Tehlirian, who killed Talaat Pasha, a genocide leader; Shahan Natalie, the agent on the ground in Europe; Armen Garo, the center of Operation Nemesis; Aaron Sachaklian, the logistics and finance officer; and others involved with Nemesis.Marian Mesrobian MacCurdy tells a story that has been either hidden by the necessity of silence or ignored in spite of victims' narratives--the story of those who attempted to seek justice for the victims of genocide and the effect this effort had on them and on their families. Ultimately, this volume reveals how the narratives of resistance and trauma can play out in the next generation and how this resistance can promote resilience.

Spis treści

Foreword,
by Gerard Libaridian

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 Eliza Der Melkonian Sachaklian
2 Aaron Sachaklian
3 Hadug Kordz
Part I: Genocidal Context
Part II: Th e Rise of Operation Nemesis
Part III: The Voices of Hadug Kordz
4 The First Generation and Its Legacy
5 Witnesses into the Future
Part I: Th e Power of the Word
Part II: From Resistance to Resilience

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