Krikor Badrossian
Krikor Badrossian was an Armenian communist politician. He was a musician by profession. Badrossian arrived in Baghdad from Lebanon in 1937, where he joined the Iraqi Communist Party.[1] He became a Central Committee member of the party.[1] Badrossian headed the Armenian section of the party.[1][2] In January 1950 he was arrested, along with many other communist leaders, in a police raid.[3] In 1953 the Iraqi government expelled him to Lebanon.[4]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c Walter Laqueur (1956). Communism and Nationalism in the Middle East. Praeger. pp. 184, 190.
- ^ Mohammed Shafi Agwani (1969). Communism in the Arab East. Asia Pub. House. p. 33. ISBN 9780210981573.
- ^ Ost-Probleme, Vol. 3, Eds. 27–52. 1951. p. 977.
- ^ Robert Alan Fernea (1991). The Iraqi revolution of 1958: the old social classes revisited. Tauris. p. 179. ISBN 978-1-85043-318-7.