Capital Vanguard Committee Remembers the Victims of Armenian Political Violence

The Armenian Van Revolt of March 1915 saw the deaths of over 60,000 Muslims and the extermination of its Jewish population in a span of thirty days, as the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF) “cleansed” the land of all non-Armenian elements, and handed the Van Province over to the invading Russians. The Van Revolt was the last in a long series of Armenian Revolts from 1885 that caused the deaths and forced migration of over 600,000 Ottoman Muslims and Jews in eastern Anatolia. The Van Revolt caused the Ottoman security-based arrest of ARF leaders throughout the Ottoman Empire and security-based relocation of Armenian civilians from the eastern war zones.
Armenian political violence reemerged in 1974 in the form of terrorism by the leftist Armenian Secretary Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA) and ultra right, ARF-supported Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide (JCAG), which killed over 70 and seriously wounded over 700 civilians in more than 200 terror bombings worldwide. Armenian terror caused hundreds of millions of dollars of damage from Los Angeles to Boston, from Paris to Sydney.
Turkish American leaders in Washington, DC, formed the Capital Vanguard Committee to remember Van, and to Guard Americans of Turkish heritage and their friends from Armenian extremism, and to ensure that we remember and honor the victims of Armenian political violence.