Roupen sevag biography
Rupen Chilingiryan (Sevag) (Ռուբէն Յովհաննէսի Չիլինկիրեան (Սեւակ), February 28, , Silivri, Ottoman Empire – August 26, , Çankırı, Ottoman Empire) was an..
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Roupen Sevag - 1885-1915
Illuminated Legacy in the Holy See of Etchmiadzin
Armenian News Network / Groong
January 11, 2015
Travel Wire
By Ruth Bedevian
The telegram read:
25 August 1915 - 8:25 AM Chankir, Istanbul - Pankalty Nalpant Street To: Mrs.Chilingirian `I WENT WITH VAROUJAN TO AYASH. SEND ME YOUR LETTERS THERE. ROUPEN.'
Two hours after the telegram was dispatched, Turkish soldiers removed Roupen Sevag and Daniel Varoujian and three others from the train near the village of Tuneh .
Rupen Sevag (Ermenice: Ռուբէն Սեւակ) veya Rupen Çilingiryan (d.
They tied their victims to a tree and brutally butchered them according to a documented eyewitness account. During the 100 years since this heinous crime, Roupen Sevag has been mourned - as have all the victims who perished in the first genocide of the 20th century perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire.
He was one of the youngest[1] intellectuals of the more than 250 that were marked for arrest and death on April 24, 1915 at the onset of the dep