Monte Melkonian

Monte Melkonian
Nickname	Avo
Allegiance	Republic of Armenia
Years of service	1979-1993
Rank	Shtapee Pet or Lieutenant Colonel
Commands held	Martuni Detachment
Battles/wars	1979 Iranian Revolution Lebanese Civil War 1982 Lebanon War Nagorno-Karabakh War
Other work	Memoirs: The Right to Struggle, selected writings printed after his death in 1993.

Monte Melkonian (born November 25, 1957 – June 12, 1993) was a well-known Armenian military commander in the Nagorno-Karabakh war. He is largely known for major military victories against Azerbaijan from the late autumn of 1992, . Melkonian had no prior service record in any country's army before being placed in command of an estimated 4,000 men in the war. He had largely built his military education beginning from the late 1970s and 1980s where he fought against the various splintering factions in the Lebanese Civil War, against Israeli troops in the Israeli invasion of Lebanon and was a member of the Armenian guerrilla organization ASALA.

Other websites

• 2 part documentary video about Monte, including rare interviews, on Google Video: Part 1 and Part 2. (In Armenian.)
• 5 part interview with Monte Melkonian, in English, on YouTube: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4,Part 5