Sarkisyan, Vazgen

Sarkisyan, Vazgen
▪ 2000

      Armenian nationalist who, having devoted much of his life to the Armenian fight with Azerbaijan for control of the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave, helped found the Karabakh Committee, commanded ground troops (1990–92), and held senior posts in the defense ministry (from 1992) before turning against Armenian Pres. Levon Ter-Petrosyan, who was forced to resign in 1998. Sarkisyan was named prime minister in June 1999, nearly five months before he was shot and killed during an armed attack on parliament (b. March 5, 1959, Ararat, Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic, U.S.S.R.—d. Oct. 27, 1999, Yerevan, Armenia).

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