1. Garegin or Karekin Pastermadjian, better known by his nom de guerre Armen Garo or Armen Karo was an Armenian activist and politician.
19 Facts About Armen Garo
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Armen Garo was one of the masterminds of the 1896 occupation of the Ottoman Bank in response to the Hamidian massacres, and of Operation Nemesis, in which several perpetrators of the Armenian genocide were assassinated.
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Armen Garo finished his elementary education as one of the first graduates of the Sanasarian College of Erzurum.
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Armen Garo left his studies to aid his compatriots in Zeitun.
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Armen Garo soon found himself in Geneva, where he became an activist alongside his friends.
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Armen Garo was sent to Egypt to assist the Zeitun Resistance.
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The attack took place at about 1 pm Armen Garo entered 10 minutes prior to the attack.
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Armen Garo was to keep the teller busy and the bank officers from escaping.
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Armen Garo took over as leader, ordering his group for much of the standoff.
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Armen Garo transferred to Switzerland and studied natural sciences at the University of Geneva.
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Armen Garo was on the delegate roster of the second ARF general conference in 1898, representing the party committee in Egypt.
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Armen Garo secured the right to develop a copper mine, and worked towards a partnership with a large company.
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Armen Garo's business required that he should stay in the Caucasus to continue his successful enterprise.
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Armen Garo became a member of the Ottoman parliament part from the Armenian Revolutionary Federation deputies.
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Armen Garo was a member of the Ottoman Parliament from 1908 to 5 August 1912.
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Armen Garo had taken too active a part in 1913 in the conferences held for the consideration of the Armenian reforms, and especially because, while parliamentary elections were going on during April 1914, he was in Paris and the Netherlands, as the delegate of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation, to meet the inspectors general who were invited to carry out the reforms.
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Armen Garo left for America in June 1917 as the representative of the Armenian National Council of Tiflis.
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Armen Garo was elected to be ambassador of the First Republic of Armenia to the United States in Washington, DC.
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Armen Garo died of heart disease in Geneva, Switzerland on 23 March 1923, aged 51, where he was attending a conference on Russia.