- Tatul Krpeyan
Tatul Krpeyan was a Dashnak from
Armenia who had been teaching at a local village school. He was the commander ofOperation Ring in the defense. Tatul left behind his wife and his 3 year old daughter. He received the highest title inArmenia , theNational Hero of Armenia award.Operation Ring
The Moscow-based human rights group Memorial has reconstructed what happened. On 30 April, 4th Army soldiers and then the
Azerbaijani OMON enteredGetashen . Resistance was sporadic but Krpeyan was killed. The OMON raided and looted houses and attacked many of the inhabitants of the dozen or so killed were in their eighties and nineties. [Black Garden: Armenia and Azerbaijan Through Peace and War - Page 116byThomas de Waal ]Krpeyan was killed on April 30, 1991 in Getashen. In 1988, Krpeyan was an active member of the Miatsum (Unification) Movement, and in 1990 joined the ARF ranks. From September 1990 he took part in self-defense battles of Getashen and Martunashen.
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* [http://www.armenians.com/fedayi/Tatul/ Tatul Krpeyan - Armenians.com]
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