Arabo ( hy, Արաբօ, 1863–1893), born Arakel Mkhitarian,
was an
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fedayi of the late 19th century.
Arabo was born in the village of Kurter or Korter ( or ) in the region of
Sasun in the
Bitlis vilayet.
Arabo studied at the
Arakelots Monastery school in
Mush
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Beginning in the late-1880s, he led the Armenian
fedayi groups in Sasun and
Taron.
According to Armenian revolutionary
Ruben Ter Minasian, Arabo and started off as a bandit whose group "terrorized the environs of the City of Moush, blocked the roads, staged holdups, killed and robbed, seized entire flocks of sheep and cattle", but became a revolutionary during his time in the Caucasus.
Starting in 1889, Arabo visited the
Caucasus
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several times. In 1892, he was arrested by Turkish authorities and sentenced to 15 years of imprisonment, but escaped from prison and resumed his fedayi activities.
He took part in the first
ARF conference in
Tiflis
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in 1892.
In spring of 1893, while returning to Ottoman Armenia from the Caucasus to help rebels from Sasun, he was killed with his four comrades during a battle with Kurdish bands on the road from
Khnus to Mush.
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See also
* " Zartir lao", a popular folk song about Arabo
* Armenian fedayi
* Armenian national movement
References
External links
Arabo's Biography
{{Armenian nationalism
1863 births
1893 deaths
People from Bitlis
Armenian fedayi
Armenian nationalists
Prisoners and detainees of the Ottoman Empire
Armenians from the Ottoman Empire
Highwaymen