Djemal Pasha (Ahmed Cemal) §

Born in Mytilene (Lesbos) to an Ottoman military pharmacist; trained as a staff officer and emerged as the third member of the CUP triumvirate after 1913. As Minister of Marine and military governor of Greater Syria from late 1914 he commanded the Fourth Army on the Sinai-Palestine front, where he oversaw deportation of Armenian survivors into the desert death-camps around Deir ez-Zor and presided over the 1916 hangings of Arab nationalists in Damascus and Beirut. He kept a separate, partially obstructionist line on Armenian deportations in his own zone, sheltering some Armenian craftsmen for war-economy reasons, but bears full command responsibility for the southern leg of the genocide. Fled with Talaat and Enver in November 1918 and was sentenced to death in absentia. Assassinated in Tiflis on 25 July 1922 by ARF operatives Stepan Dzaghigian, Petros Ter-Poghosian and Artashes Gevorgian as part of Operation Nemesis.