Affiliation With Armenian Revolutionary Federation
The JCAG was the military branch of Armenian Revolutionary Federation. The fact was established as early as May 1976, when a member of JCAG was killed by his proper bomb in the headquarter of ARF in Paris. It was confirmed when French political scientist Gaïdz Minassian was allowed to consult the archives of ARF for his doctoral thesis. In several occasions, the official newspapers of ARF, in USA, France and Lebanon justified the "armed struggle" and published official communiqués of JCAG.
The legal branches of ARF fundraised to pay the lawyer costs of arrested JCAG members. The most famous case is Harry Sassounian,sentenced to life for the assassination of Turkish general consul in Los Angeles. According to Dashnak newspaper Asbarez (October 15, 1983), several dozens of thousands of Armenians (ARF sympathisers and militants) participated to the Sassounian solidarity groups. French ARF organized a demonstration in front of US consulate in Lyon, in protestation against Sassounian's arrest. ARF supported also Harutyun Krikor Levonian and Alexander Elbekyan, sentenced to twenty years of prison for the assassination of Galip Balkar, Turkish ambassador in Belgrade, both by money and statements of support; and Max Hraïr Kilndjian, sentenced to two years of jail as an accessory in the attempt of murder against Turkish ambassador in Switzerland.
In 1982, an attempt to bomb the building of Turkish consulate in Philadelphia was stopped just in right time by the FBI; the leader of the group, Vicken Hovsepian, is sentenced to 6 years of jail, a sentence confirmed in appeal. Vicken Hovsepian is now the main leader of ARF in USA. In January 2001, another leader of American ARF, Mourad Topalian, was sentenced to 37 months of jail for illegal storing of war weapons and explosives, in the benefice of JCAG.
JCAG's activities were concentrated in European and North American countries targeting Turkish interests.
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