Eric Bogosian examines the network of ARF that planned assassinations of leaders of the genocide that had fled the empire at the end of the WWI. The story of Sogomon Tehlirian is one of several of these efforts and Bogosian does a detailed description of how Tehlirian learned of what happened to most of his family when he returned to his home town late in the war and how Tehlirian carried out the assassination of Talat Pasha in Berlin. What is important with this presentation is the reminder that there was a planned operation that involved several former perpetrators of the genocide and that Armenians from the diaspora took part in the planning. The overarching question is why the Armenians had to take charge of finding justice for the genocide. Where was the international community after World War I. As the scholar Richard Hovanissian has pointed out, World War II and the Holocaust might have been prevented had the victorious allies of World War I conducted international trials.
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