Operation Nemesis: The Final Act

By Ara Khachig Manoogian

About the Book

In 1921 it had to be done in secret. The final act is done in the open, by every Armenian.

Operation Nemesis: The Final Act is written by the grandson and last student of Shahan Natalie, the man who organized Operation Nemesis. It tells how the mission was built, who paid for it, and who tried to stop it, and it sets out how the work is finished today, under the law.

When the powers let the organizers of the Armenian Genocide go free, Shahan Natalie organized the special mission that found them and carried out the sentences an Ottoman court had passed and no government would enforce. Armenian leaders opposed it. Ordinary Armenians paid for it. It stopped the destruction before it could finish what was left of Armenia.

A century later the Armenian territories of Artsakh are under occupation by Azerbaijan, the documents that would sign away the right of recovery are on the table, and a road across Syunik threatens what remains. Natalie’s last student sets out the final act of Operation Nemesis: not a list of targets, but a plan every Armenian can carry out, built on law that is already written, courts that are already open, and a nation that insists on being counted.

It is written for all of them: the ninety-six percent who would fight for Armenia, the two percent who would not, and the two percent who are not sure. And it is written for every people that has been promised protection and left to arrange it alone.

The book draws on Shahan Natalie’s memoirs and letters, the receipts of the Armenians who paid for the mission, the records of the courts that sentenced the organizers of the Genocide, and the author’s own years in Martuni, Artsakh. It closes with a plan anyone can take part in, from a legislator in Washington to a student in Yerevan to a grandmother in Buenos Aires with a deed to a house in Hadrut.

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