Khachatur Malumian ( hy, Խաչատուր Մալումյան), also known as Edgar Aknuni (''Aknouni or Agnouni''; hy, Էտկար Ակնունի) (1863 in

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– 1915) was an Armenian journalist and

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Biography

Khachatur Malumian gained his early education at the

Nersisyan School Nersisian School ( hy, Ներսիսեան դպրոց, ''Nersisian Dprots''; ka, ნერსისიანის სემინარია, ; russian: Нерсесяновское училище, translit=Nersisyanovskoye učilišče) was an A ...

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. He studied at

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, where he became one of the close friends of

Christapor Mikaelian Christapor Mikaelian ( Armenian: , Krisdapor Mikaelyan/Chrisdapor Mikaelian; 18 October 1859 – 17 March 1905), also known by his ''noms de guerre'' Hellen (), Topal (), and Edward (), was one of the three founders of the Armenian Revolutionary ...

, contributing to his

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. In 1907 in

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, he was delegated to the

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IV Conference, then in

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he organized the General Meeting of opposite Ottoman parties for the reinstatement of the Ottoman Constitution. He welcomed the Young Turk movement and worked in

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(now

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) after 1914. Even when the

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ordered that the Armenian intellectuals be deported, Aknuni stayed loyal to Talaat, the Interior Minister, saying, "It’s impossible! Talaat probably doesn’t know about it!"Armenia: The Survival of a Nation
Malumian was a victim of the

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Sources

*The Armenian Question, encyclopedia, Ed. by acad. K. Khudaverdyan, Yerevan, 1996, p. 26.
Armenia: The Survival of a Nation

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Malumian, Khachatur 1863 births Armenian politicians 1915 deaths Armenians from the Ottoman Empire People who died in the Armenian genocide People from Meghri