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Financing of Armenian Terrorism
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Armenian terrorism in the 1970s and 1980s was financed by the drug trafficking, extortions, other illegal activities and small donations.
The official reports clearly show that the Armenian terrorists extorted funds from fellow, nonviolent Armenians.
The Tashnaks in the United States were able to raise over 250.000 US dollars for a single case as witnessed in militant Sassounian’s defence. Similarly in Canada the Tashnak radicals were able to raise more than 160.000 US dollars for a single campaign.
Reader's Digest: "90 % of Armenian Terrorism Financed Through The Sale or Barter of Narcotics"
Nathan M. Adams, a senior editor of Reader’s Digest, who testified before the United States Senate’s Subcommittee on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse, argued in 1984 that Armenian terrorist groups of both the left and the right were estimated to be 90 percent financed through the sale or barter of narcotics. Adams further gives example of Noubar Soufoyon, a notorious Armenian drug trafficker believed sheltered in Lebanon.
Noubar Soufoyon
Noubar Soufoyon was indicted in New York for importing heroin and Interpol alerted in June 1981. The Greek authorities arrested Mr. Soufoyon. However the Greeks rejected an American application for extradition and sent him to Lebanon, where he was promptly released. American, Turkish and French authorities time to time blamed the Greek authorities of ignoring or supporting Armenian terrorism. Noubar Soufoyon was capable of dealing as much as 100 kilos of heroin at a single time and he financed many Armenian terrorist activities in Lebanon, Switzerland, France and other countries. Soufoyon was banned him from Switzerland for five years.
Tashnak-Drug Trafficking Connection
In addition to the Swiss authorities Francis M. Mullen, Jr., the administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration of the US Department of Justice, said: “Documented heroin and hashish trafficker Noubar Soufoyon was connected with the Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide… He remains a fugitive from US justice and his current whereabouts are unknown.”
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