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"The  forgiveness" of the terrorist killers of Governor Mikhail Nakashidze and Consul Kemal Arykan - what it leads to: lessons from history

01.11.21 15:50


The prison release of Armenian terrorist Hampig Sassounian, a member of the terrorist Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA) who assassinated Turkish Consul Kemal Arykan in Los Angeles (USA) in 1982, made history come to mind. All the more so because it teaches terrible lessons and a terrorist who is not eliminated in time, much less released or "amnestied", ends up causing the deaths of tens of thousands of innocent people.

 

In 1905-1907, Dashnak terrorists waged bloody terror against both the peaceful Azerbaijan population and officials of the Russian Empire who attempted to curb terrorism. The Dashnak terrorist Drastamat Kanayan murdered, with a thrown bomb, the prominent Georgian public figure, Baku governor Mikhail Nakashidze on May 11, 1905.

 

According to all the laws of the time, the terrorist Kanayan should have faced the death penalty. However, even then the Tsarist government began to show short-sighted "leniency" towards terrorists. Moreover, in 1914, at the beginning of World War I, "for military and political reasons", an amnesty was granted to Dashnak terrorist killers, including Drastam Kanayan. In November 1914 Kanayan became the commander of the so-called "2nd Armenian Volunteer Force", in essence a militant-terrorist detachment which engaged in genocide against the Turkish and Muslim population.

 

Their "kindness" towards terrorists ultimately cost the Russian Empire and the Tsarist government dearly. The Dashnaks were directly involved in the 1917 revolution which ended with the overthrow of the Tsar and the eventual death of the entire Tsarist family.

 

Following the establishment of the First Republic of Armenia, Drastamat Kanayan entered its service (he was then nicknamed "General Dro") and by November 1920 became Minister of Defence in Yerevan and lost the war with Turkey in a landslide. Well, atrocities against a defenceless civilian population is one thing, but a war with a regular army is quite another.

 

And then, the same Drastamat Kanayan was noted for new sinister and bloody crimes against humanity. He joined the Nazis, became a terrorist together with others, Garegin Nzhdeh, the founder of the Nazi so-called "Armenian Legion", which participated in the atrocities in the Nazi-occupied territories, the genocide of entire nations, including the Holocaust of the Jewish people.

Drastamat Kanayan has tens, if not hundreds of thousands of murdered and tortured people on his conscience. These are the consequences of "kindness" to terrorists.

 

If future Nazi executioner Drastamat Kanayan had been prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law and executed for the first atrocity he committed - the murder of Baku governor Nakshidze, many victims of the horrific terror of his vicious sonderkommando during World War II would still be alive.

 

116 years have elapsed since the murder of Mikhail Nakashidze (one of the earliest high-profile atrocities by Dashnak terrorists) and not only has Armenian terrorism not disappeared, it has become bloodier and more sophisticated. And so, in 1982, Ambik Sassounian, a member of the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia, murdered Kemal Arykan, the Turkish Consul in Los Angeles. The killer was apprehended and sentenced to life imprisonment in 1984. In principle, the terrorist should have died in prison.

 

However, unexpectedly in 2002, a federal court gave him the opportunity to apply for release in 2009, 25 years after his imprisonment, although these applications were initially rejected.

 

Sassounian's conditional parole was rejected in 2016 by then-Governor of California Jerry Brown. He referred to letters from US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson himself and Attorney General Jeff Sessions. In December 2019, the state Prisoner Release Board decided to release Sasunian, but now Governor Gavin Newsom has rejected the decision.

 

But on 24 February 2021, the Los Angeles County Supreme Court overturned Governor Newsom's decision. The murderer of the Turkish consul has now been released and is in Armenia.

 

The press service of the terrorist ARF Dashnaktsutyun has already published Sasounian's message on Facebook.

 

" Forty years later, I am privileged to be in my native land, drinking its native water, breathing its air and feeling the warmth of my family," rejoices the killer.

 

Because of the incomprehensible "leniency" of the American authorities and judicial system towards the criminal, the terrorist murderer is now at large and has arrived in Armenia, where after the 44-day war lost there is a mass of revanchists and embittered nationalists, with terrorist designs and tendencies.

This dubious "kindness" of American justice will do no good. Moreover, this is the second "gift" from the USA to the South Caucasus in the form of a terrorist. The first was Monte Melkonian, who was liquidated in Karabakh during the First Karabakh War.

 

Those who release murderous terrorists should realise that they are setting free monsters who may in time begin to kill their own family and friends. Or they will teach other terrorists to do so, believing they can do so with impunity.

 

 After all, when the authorities of the Russian Empire illegally "amnestied" Dashnak terrorists-killers like Drastamat Kanayan, who killed the Georgian governor in "far away" Baku, few thought that in several decades the same "forgiven" terrorist would start killing Jews, Russians, Poles and representatives of other nationalities in European countries. By releasing the terrorist ASALA and giving him opportunities to "educate and mentor" thugs like him, don't they understand that by doing so they can provoke future, heinous crimes with their "kindness"? Which, in today's globalising world, knows no boundaries and may well be carried out by terrorists in the USA itself against Americans.

 

 

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