Operation Nemesis
| Operation Nemesis | |
|---|---|
An exhibition dedicated to Operation Nemesis at the genocide museum in Yerevan, Armenia | |
| Location | Berlin, Tiflis, Constantinople (now Istanbul), Rome |
| Date | 1920–1922 |
| Target | Ottoman officials responsible for the Armenian genocide, Azerbaijani officials responsible for the 1918 massacre of Armenians in Baku |
Attack type | Assassinations |
| Perpetrators | Armenian Revolutionary Federation |
| Motive | Vigilante justice Revenge |
Operation Nemesis (Armenian: «Նեմեսիս» գործողություն, romanized: "Nemesis" gortsoghut'iun) was a program of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation to assassinate both Ottoman perpetrators of the Armenian genocide and officials of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic most responsible for the massacre of Armenians during the September Days of 1918 in Baku. Masterminded by Shahan Natalie, Armen Garo, and Aaron Sachaklian, it was named after the Greek goddess of divine retribution, Nemesis.
Between 1920 and 1922, a clandestine cell of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation carried out seven killings, the best-known being the assassination of Talaat Pasha, the main orchestrator of the Armenian genocide, by Armenian Soghomon Tehlirian in March 1921 in Berlin.