- Ruben Ter Minasian
Ruben Ter Minasian was born in 1882 in Akhalkalak, Georgia. He was an Armenian Revolutionary and later, a politician. He was a member of the
ARF Armenian Revolutionary Federation being an very active memberpolitics andrevolution for the liberation ofArmenia . He played a key role in therevolution movement ofKars ,Van and other places inArmenia where there was happeningGenocide by theOttoman Empire .Ter Minasian played a key role in the formation of the
Democratic Republic of Armenia along withAram Manougian ,Simon Vratsian ,Hamo Ohanjanyan and others. Later he was a member in the Armenian Parliament serving asDefense Minister andpolitical activist . After the breakup of the newly formed Armenian Republic, Ter Minasian moved toParis, France working as aArmenia nintellectual andpolitician being a member of theARF Bureau.He later toured in
Middle East andEgypt to spread theARF Ideology in order to become an worldwide knownArmenia npolitical party. After all that political activism he wanted a rest, and in 1948 he finally settled inParis, France .When Ter Minasian got old he planned to write his memoirs and produced almost 7 books in which he tells of his experiences as a politician and of his life in
Old Armenia .After living in
Paris 3 years he died in November 1951. His body was buried inPere Lachaise cemetery, onNovember 30 ,1951 under number 13874.
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