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

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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 in

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. He studied at Geneva University, where he became one of the close friends of Christapor Mikaelian, contributing to his Droshak Journal. In 1907 in

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, he was delegated to the ARF 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 Ottoman Interior Ministry 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