Arabo ( hy, Արաբօ, 1863–1893), born Arakel Mkhitarian, was an

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n fedayi of the late 19th century. Arabo was born in the village of Kurter or Korter ( or ) in the region of

Sasun Sason ( hy, Սասուն, translit=Sasun, ku, Qabilcewz, ar, قبل جوز; formerly known as Sasun or Sassoun) is a district and town in the Batman Province of Turkey. It was formerly part of the sanjak of Siirt, which was in Diyarbakır vi ...

in the Bitlis vilayet. Arabo studied at the

Arakelots Monastery Arakelots Monastery ( hy, Մշո Սուրբ Առաքելոց վանք, ''Mšo Surb Arakelots vank' '', "Holy Apostles Monastery of Mush") was an Armenian monastery in the historic province of Taron, 11 km south-east of Mush (Muş), in pres ...

school in

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. Beginning in the late-1880s, he led the Armenian fedayi groups in Sasun and Taron. According to Armenian revolutionary

Ruben Ter Minasian Ruben Ter Minasian ( hy, Ռուբէն Տէր Մինասեան; 1882–1951) was an Armenian politician and revolutionary of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF) who played an important role in the Armenian national liberation movement and l ...

, Arabo and 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. Starting in 1889, Arabo visited the

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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. He took part in the first

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conference in

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in 1892. 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.Genocide.ru (Russian)
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