Arshak_Vramian
Arshak Vramian
Armenian revolutionary
Arshak or Arshag Vramian (Armenian: Արշակ Վռամեան,[lower-alpha 1] born Onnik Derdzakian;[lower-alpha 2] 22 March 1870/1871 – 17 April 1915) was an Armenian revolutionary and a leading member of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation. He worked as an ARF activist in his native Constantinople before fleeing the police. He worked for the party in Bulgaria and Romania before moving to Geneva, where he served on the party's Western Bureau and edited the party organ Droshak. He lived in the United States from 1899 to 1907; while there, he edited the party newspaper Hairenik. He returned to the Ottoman Empire after the Young Turk Revolution restored the Ottoman constitution. He was a member of the Ottoman parliament elected from Van Province. He was killed by the Ottoman authorities in April 1915 at the start of the Armenian genocide.