ABSTRACT

Agnouni [Khachadour Maloumian] was born in Karabagh and educated at the Nersesian College in Tiflis. He was part of the editorial staff of the Mshag newspaper and later took part in the negotiations leading to the founding of the ARF. He became part of the staff of Troshag in 1899 and was a member of the Western Bureau from 1901 until 1914, when he was elected to the Armenia Bureau. He was one of the organizers of both the 1902 and the 1907 Congress of Ottoman Opposition Forces in Paris. He moved to Constantinople when the Constitution was restored where he was a prolific political commentator, publishing many works and giving public addresses. He was one of the first victims of the genocide in April of 1915.