Monte Melkonian

[KarotheGreat]

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R.I.P. Avo jan!

We have heroes like Avo, who gave the ultimate gift and dedicated their lives to our fatherland; on the other hand we have cowards who shoot heroes in their backs and sell our fatherland in the flea market.

Another Artsakh hero is Dr. Stepan Gevorgyan, they’ve just sentenced him for 7 years in prison on a falls charges.

Have searched info about Stepan but couldn't find anything about him.

[Yedtarts]

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Have searched info about Stepan but couldn't find anything about him.

Don’t want to turn this thread about him. Just small and short information about him, the name is Dr. Stepan Gevorgyan (AKA “Styopik”) he was a surgeon in Erebuni military hospital in Yerevan. They showed him on TV taking a bribe and humiliated him. But it was proven in court that; he had received a phone call from his superior and was ordered to accept the bribe, the bribe was't for him it was for his boss, this event was all staged. This was all proven in the court. He was sentenced June 9th 2009,for 7 years in prison, this after they’ve held him for almost 1 year in the KGB’s prison without any judgement. “Styopik” has just received the Eagle medal from Artsakh(One of the highest Hero medals) while he was in jail. By the way this is a Yerevantsi guy went and fought with the “Suicide commandos” (Mahabardneri Jokat) for the liberation of Artsakh, he has participated in the liberation of Shoushi.

[Lucin]

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Thanks Federate for this thread. Honestly I didn't know much on Monte and his political path in details...

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...

Wow, this is interesting. I wonder why he made such a move as an American-Armenian?

[KanadaHye]

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Thanks Federate for this thread. Honestly I didn't know much on Monte and his political path in details...

Wow, this is interesting. I wonder why he made such a move as an American-Armenian?

Good question, also, how was he able to create so much havoc in so many different countries?

[Anoush]

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Don’t want to turn this thread about him. Just small and short information about him, the name is Dr. Stepan Gevorgyan (AKA “Styopik”) he was a surgeon in Erebuni military hospital in Yerevan. They showed him on TV taking a bribe and humiliated him. But it was proven in court that; he had received a phone call from his superior and was ordered to accept the bribe, the bribe was't for him it was for his boss, this event was all staged. This was all proven in the court. He was sentenced June 9th 2009,for 7 years in prison, this after they’ve held him for almost 1 year in the KGB’s prison without any judgement. “Styopik” has just received the Eagle medal from Artsakh(One of the highest Hero medals) while he was in jail. By the way this is a Yerevantsi guy went and fought with the “Suicide commandos” (Mahabardneri Jokat) for the liberation of Artsakh, he has participated in the liberation of Shoushi.

It's too too bad... He is the one being jailed and humiliated when he was actually carrying out an order coming from his superior/boss, and how come instead of him his boss wasn't jailed? Why was he jailed for the wrongdoing of his boss? I tell you guys this is a very corruped and a very UNJUST world.

Here's a man innocent of any wrongdoings while his boss was the bad one and plus he is a hero trying to liberate the land of his anscestors in the name of love for his nation, for his country and for his brethren in Artsakh. How sad. I feel like writing to Serzh and collecting petition from all of you guys to free him and clean his good name from any unjustifiable wrongdoings.

[Anoush]

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Thanks Federate for this thread. Honestly I didn't know much on Monte and his political path in details...

Yes I also like to thank you Federate jan for writing about Monte and in such detail. I also love Monte for his love and his devotion to his anscestral lands. After all, there is no greater sacrifice than voluntarily giving your life for such a grand cause as liberating your anscestral sacred lands; and Monte was a very giving and a real brave hero. He must be remembered and loved by all Armenians from all around the world for always!!!

Wow, this is interesting. I wonder why he made such a move as an American-Armenian?

Because he was most probably brought up by his parents to be a man with a great heart and love for his anscestral lands and people. It must have been a combination of his upbrining or his education from books and the organizations that he was involved with such as the Armenian Revolutionary Federation.

[KanadaHye]

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I tell you guys this is a very corruped and a very UNJUST world.

I can confirm that statement

[Anoush]

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I can confirm that statement

Dear KanadaHye, Don't you think that it would be a good idea for at least some of us to write a letter or e-mail to Serzh Sargsyan to ask him to free this hero man and clear his good name from any wrongdoings? I am willing to write or e-mail to the government and to Serzh about this.

[KanadaHye]

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Dear KanadaHye, Don't you think that it would be a good idea for at least some of us to write a letter or e-mail to Serzh Sargsyan to ask him to free this hero man and clear his good name from any wrongdoings? I am willing to write or e-mail to the government and to Serzh about this.

Yeah.... words and petitions don't seem to mean much unless you can get publicity somehow. I like to stick it to governments anonymously and in my own way...... they don't tend to like their authority challenged by intelligence

[Pedro Xaramillo]

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Yes I also like to thank you Federate jan for writing about Monte and in such detail. I also love Monte for his love and his devotion to his anscestral lands. After all, there is no greater sacrifice than voluntarily giving your life for such a grand cause as liberating your anscestral sacred lands; and Monte was a very giving and a real brave hero. He must be remembered and loved by all Armenians from all around the world for always!!!




Because he was most probably brought up by his parents to be a man with a great heart and love for his anscestral lands and people. It must have been a combination of his upbrining or his education from books and the organizations that he was involved with such as the Armenian Revolutionary Federation.

I hate prove you wrong here Anoush jan, but Monte's parents did not care about their Armenian heritage, Monte discovered about it while travelling, it was all on his own, his parent had nothing to do with it

Read my brother road, his biography

Melkonian was born on November 25, 1957 at Visalia Municipal Hospital in Visalia, California to Charles and Zabel Melkonian. He was the third of four children born to a self-employed cabinetmaker and an elementary-school teacher.[4] By all accounts, Melkonian was described as an all-American child who joined the Boy Scouts and was a pitcher in Little League baseball.[3] Melkonian's parents rarely talked about their ethnic Armenian heritage with their children, often referring to the place of their ancestors as the "Old Country." His interest in his background only sparked at the age of eleven, when his family went on a year-long trip to Europe in 1969.

While taking Spanish language courses in Spain, his teacher had posed him the question of where he was from. Dissatisfied with Melkonian's answer of "California", the teacher rephrased the question by asking "where did your ancestors come from?" His brother Markar Melkonian remarked that "her image of us was not at all like our image of ourselves. She did not view us as the Americans we had always assumed we were." From this moment on, for days and months to come, Markar continues, "Monte pondered [their teacher Señorita] Blanca's question Where are you from?"[5]

In the spring of that year, the family also traveled across Turkey to visit the town of Merzifon, where Melkonian's maternal grandparents were from. Merzifon's population at the time was 23,475 but was almost completely devoid of its once 17,000-strong Armenian population that was wiped out during the Armenian Genocide in 1915. They did find one Armenian family of the three that was living in the town, however, Melkonian soon learned that the only reason this was so, was because the head of the family in 1915 had exchanged the safety of his family in return for identifying all the Armenians in the town to Turkish authorities during the genocide.[6] Monte would later confide to his wife that "he was never the same after that visit....He saw the place that had been lost."[3]