Monte Melkonian was a famed Armenian military commander in the Nagorno-Karabakh war. He is largely credited for major military victories against Azerbaijan from the late autumn of 1992 to his death in June 1993. Melkonian had no prior service record in any country's army before being placed in command of an estimated 4,000 men in the war.

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  • Monte Melkonian was a famed Armenian military commander in the Nagorno-Karabakh war. He is largely credited for major military victories against Azerbaijan from the late autumn of 1992 to his death in June 1993. Melkonian had no prior service record in any country's army before being placed in command of an estimated 4,000 men in the war. He had largely built his military experience beginning from the late 1970s and 1980s where he fought against the various splintering factions in the Lebanese Civil War, against Israeli troops in the Israeli invasion of Lebanon and was a member of the Armenian militant Marxist-Leninist organization ASALA. An Armenian-American, Melkonian left the United States and arrived in Iran in 1978 during the beginning of the 1979 Iranian Revolution, taking part in demonstrations against the Shah. Following the collapse of the Shah's monarchy in 1979, he traveled to Lebanon during the height of the civil war and served in an Armenia militia group in the Beirut suburb of Bourj Hammoud. In ASALA, he took part in the assassinations of several Turkish diplomats in Europe during the early to mid-1980s and was later arrested and sent to prison in France. In 1989, he was released and in the following year, acquired a visa to travel to Armenia. Throughout his tenure, Melkonian carried several different aliases including "Abu Sindi", "Saro", "Timothy Sean McCormack" and "Commander Avo"; the last of which was the name addressed by troops under his command in the enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh. He was killed by Azerbaijani troops on June 12, 1993 in Nagorno-Karabakh and was subsequently buried at Yerablur cemetery in Yerevan, Armenia. He is revered by Armenians as a national hero.
  • Monte Melkonian war ein US-amerikanischer politischer Aktivist, Asala-Terrorist und Freischärler und späterer Kommandant der Einheit von Martouni im Krieg um Bergkarabach und armenischer Abstammung. Er war einer der Anführer der Asala.
  • Monte Melkonian fue un afamado militar armenio comnandante en la guerra de Nagorno-Karabaj. Está muy acreditado por sus grandes victorias contra Azerbaiyán desde finales de otoño de 1992 hasta su muerte en junio de 1993. No tenía registro de servicios de guerra en el ejército de ningún país, antes de ser colocado al mando de 4000 soldados. Esto constituyó su gran experiencia militar a partir de finales de los años 1970 y 1980, donde luchó en contra de las diversas facciones en la guerra civil libanesa, en contra de las tropas israelíes durante la invasión israelí del Líbano y fue miembro de la organización guerrillera armenia ASALA.
  • Файл:Monte Melkonian bust. jpg Памятник Монте Мелконяну в Ереване Монте́ «Аво́» Мелконя́н — армянский военный деятель, бывший руководитель террористической организации АСАЛА (ASALA-RM),, участник гражданской войны в Ливане, в Армении Монте Мелконян признан героем Карабахской войны.
  • Monte Melkonian, född 25 november 1957, död 12 juni 1993, armenisk krigshjälte i den väpnade konflikten om Nagorno-Karabach. Han var medlem i organisationen Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia.
  • Monte Melkonyan, Karabağ Savaşı sırasında Ermenistan Silahlı Kuvvetleri'nin desteğindeki Ermeni güçlerin komutanı ve 1980'li yıllarda ASALA'nın başkanlarından biri olmuştur. Ermeni kökenli Amerikalı olarak doğmuş ve büyümüş Melkonyan, 1978'de ABD'yi terk etmiş ve 1979 İslam Devrimi başlayınca İran'a gelmiştir. Şah hükûmetinin iflasından sonra Lübnan'a taşınmış ve Lübnan İç Savaşı süresinde Beyrut'un Burç Hamut bölgesinde yerleşmiş ve Ermeni çetesinin tarafında savaşmıştır. 1980'li yılların ortalarında ASALA örgütüne üye olduğu zaman, Avrupada bir kaç Türk diplomata karşı saldırılarda bulunmuş ve yapdığı cinayetler üzere daha sonra Fransada tutuklanmış ve hapisaneye gönderilmiştir. 1989'da hapisaneden serbest çıkan Melkonyan, Daha sonra evleneceği Seta ile beraber bir kaç Avupa ülkesinde bulunduktan sonra sonunda Ermenistana ziyaret için vize almıştır. Karabağ savaşında Ermeni komutanı olan Melkonyan, 1992-1993 Azerbaycan Silahlı Kuvvetlerine karşı Laçin ve Kelbecer'de önemli zaferler kazanmış, lakin 12 Haziran 1993'te Azeri güçlerle çıkan çatışmada hayatını kaybetmiştir. Hayatı süresinde "Abu Sindi", "Saro", "Timothy Sean McCormack" ve en son "Komutan Avo" takma isimlerle tanınmış ve resmen Ermenistan'ın millî kahramanı olarak kutsallaşmış Monte Melkonyan, Erivan'ın Yerablur mezarlığında gömülmüştür.
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  • Bust of Commander Monte Melkonian, Victory Park, Yerevan, Armenia
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  • Memoirs: The Right to Struggle, selected writings printed after his death in 1993.
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  • Monte Melkonian was a famed Armenian military commander in the Nagorno-Karabakh war. He is largely credited for major military victories against Azerbaijan from the late autumn of 1992 to his death in June 1993. Melkonian had no prior service record in any country's army before being placed in command of an estimated 4,000 men in the war.
  • Monte Melkonian war ein US-amerikanischer politischer Aktivist, Asala-Terrorist und Freischärler und späterer Kommandant der Einheit von Martouni im Krieg um Bergkarabach und armenischer Abstammung. Er war einer der Anführer der Asala.
  • Monte Melkonian fue un afamado militar armenio comnandante en la guerra de Nagorno-Karabaj. Está muy acreditado por sus grandes victorias contra Azerbaiyán desde finales de otoño de 1992 hasta su muerte en junio de 1993. No tenía registro de servicios de guerra en el ejército de ningún país, antes de ser colocado al mando de 4000 soldados.
  • Файл:Monte Melkonian bust. jpg Памятник Монте Мелконяну в Ереване Монте́ «Аво́» Мелконя́н — армянский военный деятель, бывший руководитель террористической организации АСАЛА (ASALA-RM),, участник гражданской войны в Ливане, в Армении Монте Мелконян признан героем Карабахской войны.
  • Monte Melkonian, född 25 november 1957, död 12 juni 1993, armenisk krigshjälte i den väpnade konflikten om Nagorno-Karabach. Han var medlem i organisationen Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia.
  • Monte Melkonyan, Karabağ Savaşı sırasında Ermenistan Silahlı Kuvvetleri'nin desteğindeki Ermeni güçlerin komutanı ve 1980'li yıllarda ASALA'nın başkanlarından biri olmuştur. Ermeni kökenli Amerikalı olarak doğmuş ve büyümüş Melkonyan, 1978'de ABD'yi terk etmiş ve 1979 İslam Devrimi başlayınca İran'a gelmiştir.
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