Operation Nemesis. The necessary and sufficient conditions of
the Functioning of an Early Terrorist Group
The essay classifies the possible reactions of the survivors of
the Armenian genocide at both individual and community levels
into six groups. "Operation Nemesis" was a response of
aggression organized at community level in the years after the
genocide. Though hardly general in the Armenian diaspora now
becoming massive in scale, its unfolding was not surprising,
either. The internal conditions: beside aggression, the external
conditions: the lack of perspective for conventional methods,
the international political environment of the period, the
unsettled problem of Armenian refugees, the impunity of the
perpetrators, the lack of control over the movement of persons
and resources, the legal opportunities available at places where
acts were committed - all assisting the rise and working the
terror organization
