Karabakh Committee

Karabakh Committee was a group of Armenian intellectuals recognized by many Armenians as their de facto leaders in the late 1980's [ [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DE2D6113CF936A3575AC0A96E948260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=print ARMENIAN CAPITAL IS ROUSED BY CALLS FOR NEW FREEDOMS, By BILL KELLER, THE NEW YORK TIMES, September 5, 1988] ] . The Committee was formed in 1988 with the stated objective of the reunification of Nagorno-Karabakh with Armenia. Arrested by Soviet authorities in December 11 of 1988, the leaders of Karabakh Committee were released in May 31 of 1989 [ [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3996/is_200604/ai_n17174733/pg_2 Politics of Independence and Transition, The Demokratizatsiya, Spring 2006, by G. Libaridian] ] to form the ANM.

Leaders

*Rafael Ghazaryan
*Vazgen Manukyan
*Vano Siradeghian
*Hambartsum Galstyan
*Babken Ararktsyan
*Levon Ter-Petrosyan, and others.

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