Monte Melkonian Fund

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July 7, 1993. Gomidas Avanesyan, Avo's driver, at Mikhaelyan Hospital, Yerevan. Gomidas is recovering from bullet wounds in the leg, wounds he sustained in the same confrontation that claimed the lives of Commander Avo and Saribeg Mardirosyan. Three and one-half years later, on the night of October 31, 1996, Gomidas would die along with six of his fellow fighters when they detonated an anti-personnel mine while returning from a reconnaissance mission.