Arabo

Arabo or Arapo (Armenian: Արաբօ, 1863–1893), born Arakel Mkhitarian,[1] was an Armenian fedayi of the late 19th century.[2]

Arabo
Arabo (c. 1890)
Native name
Արաբօ
Birth nameArakel Avedisian
Nickname(s)Arabo
Born1863
Kurter village, Bitlis Vilayet, Ottoman Empire
Died1893 (aged 29–30)
The road from Khnus to Mush, Ottoman Empire
Allegiance Dashnaktsutyun
Years of servicelate 1880s—1893
Battles/warsArmenian National Liberation Movement

Arabo was born in the village of Kurter or Korter (Armenian: Կոռթեր or Կուռթեր) in the region of Sasun in the Bitlis vilayet.[1] Arabo studied at the Arakelots Monastery school in Mush.[1] Beginning in the late-1880s, he led the Armenian fedayi groups in Sasun and Taron.[1] According to Armenian revolutionary Ruben Ter Minasian, Arabo started off as a bandit whose group "terrorized the environs of the City of Moush, blocked the roads, staged holdups, killed and robbed, seized entire flocks of sheep and cattle", but became a revolutionary during his time in the Caucasus.[3]

Starting in 1889, Arabo visited the Caucasus several times. In 1892, he was arrested by Turkish authorities and sentenced to 15 years of imprisonment, but escaped from prison and resumed his fedayi activities.[1] He took part in the first ARF conference in Tiflis in 1892.[1] In spring of 1893, while returning to Ottoman Armenia from the Caucasus to help rebels from Sasun, he was killed with his four comrades during a battle with Kurdish bands on the road from Khnus to Mush.[4]

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References
  1. Nersisyan, A.; Poghosyan, H. (1996). "Arabo". In Khudaverdyan, Kostandin (ed.). Haykakan hartsʻ hanragitaran (in Armenian). Yerevan: Haykakan hanragitaran hratarakchʻutʻyun. p. 52.
  2. General Andranik and the Armenian Revolutionary Movement, by Dr Antranig Chalabian, Michigan, 1988 ISBN 0-9622741-1-9
  3. Armenian Freedom Fighters: The Memoirs of Rouben Der Minasian. Boston: Hairenik Associates. 1963. p. 121. OCLC 742446430.
  4. Genocide.ru (Russian)
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