The Right to Struggle: Selected Writings of Monte Melkonian on the Armenian National Question [Paperback]

Monte Melkonian (Author), Markar Melkonian (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 1993 | ISBN-10: 0964156911 | ISBN-13: 978-0964156913 | Edition: 2

The Right to Struggle is a selection of writings on the Armenian national question. The selections, all written between the years 1981 and 1991, were authored, either in whole or in part, by Armenian national hero, Monte Melkonian. Selections include discussions of organizational questions and strategies, interpretations of Armenian history, and observations about the Armenian diaspora. The final chapter consists of three short selections about the conflict in Mountainous Karabagh.

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About the Author

Monte Melkonian, a third-generation Central Californian, was a trained archaeologist who spoke eight languages. He left the country of his birth at an early age, to participate in the Iranian revolution, the defense of the Armenian community in Lebanon, the guerrilla resistance in mountainous Kurdistan and the combined Lebanese-Palestinian anti-Zionist resistance. Because of his activities as an Armenian militant, he spent years living underground and in prison. From 1990 until his death in battle on June 12, 1993, Melkonian lead thousands of mountaineers to one victory after another against a better-equipped and more numerous enemy in one of the most vicious wars raging on the ruins of the former Soviet Union.

Product Details

• Paperback: 238 pages
• Publisher: Sardarabad Press; 2 edition (November 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0964156911
• ISBN-13: 978-0964156913
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.6 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,128,387 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #98 in Books > History > Asia > Armenia

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18 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars turkish Lies and Propoganda, May 27, 2005

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This review is from: The Right to Struggle: Selected Writings of Monte Melkonian on the Armenian National Question (Paperback)

Monte Melkonian was a great man, and his cause was noble. The turkish government occupies historically Armenian lands, and lies about the brutal killings of the Armenian Genocide, even to this day. The lies of the turkish government are clearly demonstrated by the last reviewer. There are 10s of thousands of documents in the U.S. alone, first hand accounts from foreign diplomats in Armenia at the time, that prove the validity of the claim of Armenian genocide. But thats not how the story gets passed along. I have never met an Armenian in the Armenian diaspora that doesn't have some gruesome story of their family in the Armenian Genocide. In my family, the men were shot, the women raped and sent on deathmarches, and the only survivors were two teenagers, orphaned, and sent to America. This is where Monte Melkonian gets his inspiration. He knows that Armenians in the Armenian diaspora were forced out by the turks, and that they will return to their ancestral homeland of over 2000 years once it is ridden of the turkish occupiers.

About the claim that the last reviewer brought up about fighting on the part of the Armenians during the time of the Armenian Genocide, take this quote from The German Vice-Consulate at Erzerum: "Ittihad will dangle before the eyes of the allies the specter of an alleged revolution prepared by the Armenian Dashnak party. Moreover local incidents of social unrest and acts of Armenian self-defense will deliberately be provoked and inflated and will be used as pretexts to effect the deportations. Once en route however, the convoys will be attacked and exterminated by Kurdish and Turkish brigands, and in part by gendarmes, who will be instigated for that purpose by Ittihad." This qoute obviously proves that from the beginning, the turkish government planned on lying about the Armenian genocide in the very mannor that the last reviewer lied about it.

The review the previous person posted here, he posted 10 times, so it should not even be considered a review of a book, and should be taken off the site. I would not be surprised if the person who left this extremely offensive and insulting review turned out to be working for the turkish government, or is at least "brainwashed" by the U.S. funds spent by the turkish government to deny the Genocide (yes, thats right, U.S. FUNDS!) I know that the Armenian Genocide occured, and that the turks were the perpetrators, because not only have I read the countless first hand accounts of foreigners, but I have listend to people who actually escaped the Genocide. Until the turkish government admits to the Armenian Genocide, and gives us our land back, they will be just as guilty as those who carried out the Genocide, because by not admitting to it, they are condoning it.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Monte a genious, June 1, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: The Right to Struggle: Selected Writings of Monte Melkonian on the Armenian National Question (Paperback)

These writings are very important for any study of either the Armenian 'question' or any analysis of ASALA and its true motives.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Philosophical (must read!), May 1, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: The Right to Struggle: Selected Writings of Monte Melkonian on the Armenian National Question (Paperback)

Go in the mind of a leader and on what this wise man was thinking about as he fought the enemies. Highly intensive and interesting.