Hampartsoum Boyadjian

Hampartsoum Boyadjian

Hampartsoum Boyadjian also known by his noms de guerre Medzn Mourad (Mourad the Great) (1867 - 1915) was an Armenian national movement leader and a fedayee and political activist of Hunchakian.

Medzn Mourad

He was born in Hajin (Cilicia). His senior brother was the famous Hunchakian leader Medzn Girayr.

Mourad joined the Hunchakian party when he was a medical student in Constantinople (Istanbul). In 1890, he took part in the Kum Kapu demonstration. In 1894, he was a leader of the Sasun Resistance.

In 1908, he returned to Constantinople and was elected member of the Ottoman parliament for the region of Adana.

Mourad, a Hunchakian who never gave up on the dream of a united and independent Armenia was labelled, like thousands of others, an undesirable by the Young Turk Government. He was among the first to be arrested in April 1915 at Red Sunday. During the eve of the Armenian Genocide, and sent to Kayseri, where he was severely tortured in prison. After a trial in July, hanged on 24 August 1915, with 12 fellow friends.[1][2]

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