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DOCUMENT TEXT REPORT
Document: Arménie
Created: 2003-08-08 - 11:36:21
Modified: 2007-05-01 - 15:56:31
Document Text:
1: §1 1986
2: §2 Ottawa
3: §3 Avril
4: On April 1986, three landed immigrants of Armenian descent (all ASALA members) were sentenced to 9, 6 and 2 years respectivelym by the Ontario Supreme Court on charges of conspiring to commit murder.
5: §4
6: §5 1985
7: §6 Montréal
8: §7 6 avril 1985
9:
10: The Mtl Police received a phone call threatening a bomb attack on the subway. The incident was a hoax.
11:
12: Exclu de Kellett et al : hoax
13:
14: GM 9 avp 85, 4
15:
16: Note: fait (peut-être) partie d’une série d’incidents semblables à Montréal et à Toronto, liés à l’Armée secrète arménienne.
17:
18:
19: §8 Montréal
20: §9 5 avril 1985
21:
22: An anonymous telephone call to the Mtl detachment of the RCMP warned that there would be an explosion at the Atwater subway station on 7 april. The caller claimed to represent the Armenian Secret Army. No explosive were found in a subsequent search of the station.
23:
24: The warning was similar to one given on 6 april and also to the Toronto transit threat, all appearing to have been hoax.
25:
26: Exclu de Kellett et al : hoax
27:
28: GM 9 apr 85, 4
29:
30:
31: §10 Toronto
32: §11 1er avril 1985
33:
34: L’Armée secrète pour la libération de l’Arménie fait parvenir une lettre à la GRC expliquant que si les trois attaquants de l’ambassade turque du 12 mars n’étaient pas relâchés des bombes seraient posées dans le métro de Toronto.
35:
36: La sécurité dans le métro fut augmentée. Aucune bombe ne fut trouvée.
37:
38: Source : Mickolus (1989b : 186)
39:
40:
41: §12 Toronto
42: §13 27 mars 1985
43:
44: The RCMP’s regional headquarters in Toronto received a letter, purporting to come from the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Our Homeland. The letter warned that unless the 3 Armenians arrested in the Turkish Embassy incident were released, there would be 3 bombings on April Fool’s day.
45:
46: The letter referred to Toronto transit lines, and when police made the threat public, after 3 days, commuter use the transit system declined by 35% on 1 April; ultimately the threat was assessed as a hoax.
47:
48: Exclu de Kellett et al : hoax
49:
50: GM 1 apr 85, 16; CTT, vol XIII, no 11, 1988: 4,5
51:
52:
53: §14 Ottawa
54: §15 12 mars 1985
55:
56: 3 gunmen armed with automatic rifles smashed through the gates of the Turkish embassy in a rented truck. They were fired upon by a private security gard, whom they killed. They then blasted their way into the embassy and seized 11 hostages. The ambassador escaped by jumping 2 floors; il se brisa une jambe et un bras. Sa femme et ses deux enfants restèrent aux mains des terroristes.
57:
58: les trois terroristes appelèrent une station de radio et réclamèrent que la Turquie cesse d’occuper l’Arménie et reconnaisse qu’un génocide eut lieu en 1915.
59:
60: The 3 gunmen, self-identified as Armenian Revolutionary Army members, gave up at 11h00 a.m., 4 hours after their assault on the embassy. They were subsequently convicted of 1st degree murder and were sentenced October 31, 1986 to life imprisonment with no possibility of parole for 25 years.
61:
62: le premier avril l’Armée secrète pour la libération de l’Arménie (ASALA) réclama que les 3 soient libérés, menaçant de faire sauter le métro de Toronto (voir incident 1985-04-01).
63:
64: Source: Mickolus (1989b : 177)
65:
66: Classification selon Kellett et al :
67: type: émigré
68: cible: diplomatique
69: tactique: prise d’otages
70:
71: GM 13 mar 85; LAT 13 mar 85; Facts on File, Mar 1985; OC 1 nov 86; TVI Report, fall/85, 20-3; GM 14 oct 86
72:
73:
74: §16 1983
75: §17 Toronto
76: §18 1er avril 1983
77:
78: A hand grenade was mailed to one of 3 Armenians convicted on conspiracy charges in the attempted assassination of a Turkish commercial attaché in Ottawa in 1982. The package containing the grenade broke open in a Toronto postal station. The man for whom it was intended had been the target of death threat after he criticized ASALA, according to his lawyer.
79:
80: Exclu de Kellett et al : insufficient information, unclear whether addressee intended recipient or victim
81:
82: GM 22 may 86,A20
83:
84:
85: §19 1982
86: §20 Ottawa
87: §21 27 août 1982
88:
89: The Turkish Military Attaché, colonel Atilla Altikat, was assassinated on his way to work in the morning. A total of 13 shots were fired.
90:
91: The gunman escaped on foot and no suspect has been identified to date, although the Justice Commandos for the Armenian Genocide (JCAG) called the Canadian Press Mtl bureau to claim responsibility. The same group called the Agence France Press office in Beirut.
92:
93: Premier assassinat diplomatique au Canada.
94:
95: Classification selon Kellett et al :
96: type: émigré
97: cible: diplomatique
98: tactique: assassinat
99:
100: CTT, Vol. XIII, No. 11, 1988, pp. 3,5; OC 28 aug 82, 1,57
101:
102:
103: §22 Los Angeles
104: §23 30 mai 1982
105:
106: Trois Arméniens sont arrêtés pour avoir placé une bombe à un terminal de frêt d’Air Canada. Ils voulaient venger l’arrestation d’Arméniens au Canada deux semaines plus tôt (à confirmer: après les 3 tentatives d’extorsion du mois de mai?)
107:
108: La bombe fut désamorcée par les policiers de LA 15 minutes avant sa détonation
109:
110: Source : Mickolus (1989 : 284)
111:
112:
113: §24 Toronto
114: §25 18 mai 1982
115:
116: A Canadian-Armenian businessman had his home and 2 cars firebombed. The victim had refused to comply with an extorsion demand of 5000$ allegedly intended to support the “Armenian cause”
117:
118: Classification selon Kellett et al :
119: type: émigré
120: cible: citoyen
121: tactique: extorsion
122:
123: Lowry, 1988:11; TS 26 may 82, A5
124:
125:
126: §26 Montréal
127: §27 7 mai 1982
128:
129: An explosive device detonated near the Swiss Air office in Mtl. The ASALA claimed responsibility for the act, that was carried out in retaliation for the earlier arrest of an Armenian in Switzerland, on charges of murder.
130:
131: Classification selon Kellett et al :
132: type: émigré
133: cible: foreign
134: tactique: bombe
135:
136: Kellet, 1988: A-5
137:
138:
139: §28 Toronto
140: §29 1er mai 1982
141:
142: a police investigator testified in court that an Armenian Canadian ASALA member had attempted to extort 3000$ from a member of the Toronto ethnic Armenian community to support the “needs of Armenians”. This was 1 of the 2 attempts to extort money from the Canadian-Armenian community during the month of may.
143:
144: Classification selon Kellett et al :
145: type: émigré
146: cible: citoyen
147: tactique: tentative d’extorsion
148:
149: TS 26 may 82, A5; Lowry: 1988
150:
151:
152: §30 Toronto
153: §31 mai 1982
154:
155: a Toronto-based businessman of Armenian descent complained to the Metropolitan Toronto Police that he had been approached by members of ASALA who demanded that he donate 5 000$ to their cause.
156:
157: Classification selon Kellett et al :
158: type: émigré
159: cible: citoyen
160: tactique: tentative d’extorsion
161:
162: Bain, 1985: 20 (in TVI vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 20-22)
163:
164:
165: §32 Toronto
166: §33 9 avril 1982
167:
168: The former honorary consul of Turkey in Toronto received a death threat, one of several. He had resigned the post in février 1982, a month after a bomb detonated near an office of his publishing firm.
169:
170: Exclu de Kellett et al : hoax
171:
172: GM 10 apr 82,5
173:
174:
175: §34 Ottawa
176: §35 8 avril 1982
177:
178: the ASALA attempted to assassinate the Turkish commercial attaché, Kemaletin Kani Gungor. He was shot twice by a lone gunman (épaule + jambe) and he was severely paralyzed. 2 days later a communiqué was dropped off at the United Press International offices in Los Angeles, claiming that ASALA was responsible.
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180:
181: Classification selon Kellett et al:
182: type : émigré
183: cible: diplomatique
184: tactique: tentative d’assassinat
185:
186: Facts on File April 1982, 270; OC 10 Mar 88, A1-A2; CNF, 3482-3037; Regina v. Kevork et al 25 Mar 1986, 27 C.C.C. (3d), 529.
187:
188:
189: §36 Toronto
190: §37 13 janvier 1982
191:
192: A bomb exploded in the stairwell of the Concourse Building on Adelaide St. in Toronto, one of the offices in the building was that of the honorary Turkish consul. Limited property damage, no injuries.
193:
194: Police defused another larger bomb at the scene. In letters sent to the press shortly after the incident, responsibility for the blast was claimed by Armenian nationalist-separatist organization known as the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA).
195:
196: The Toronto Star later received an anonymus call in April of 1982 which threatened that the honorary consul would lose his life if he did not resign his post before the end of April.
197:
198: Classification selon Kellett et al:
199: type: émigré
200: cible: diplomatique
201: tactique: bombe
202:
203: Lowry, 1988: 10; GM 14 Jan 82, 5; GM 10 apr 82, 5; Bain 1985: 20; TS 14 jan 82, A6; TS 26 May 82, A5
204:
205:
206: §38 Toronto
207: §39 5 janvier 1982
208:
209: An improvised explosive device detonated in a Globe and Mail newspaper vending box. The bomb was the same as those used in later bombings that were to be claimed by the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA).
210:
211: Classification selon Kellett et al:
212: type: émigré
213: cible: média
214: tactique: bombe
215:
Kellet, 1988: B-6; Bain, 1985: 20 (in TVI, Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 20-22); TS 26 May 82, A5
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