Karabakh Committee was a group of Armenian

Armenians

Armenian people or Armenians are a nation and ethnic group native to the Armenian Highland.The largest concentration is in Armenia having a nearly-homogeneous population with 97.9% or 3,145,354 being ethnic Armenian....

 intellectuals recognized by many Armenians as their de facto leaders in the late 1980s. The Committee was formed in 1988 with the stated objective of the reunification of Nagorno-Karabakh

Nagorno-Karabakh

Nagorno-Karabakh is a landlocked region in the South Caucasus, lying between Lower Karabakh and Zangezur and covering the southeastern range of the Lesser Caucasus mountains...

 with Armenia

Armenia

Armenia , officially the Republic of Armenia , is a landlocked mountainous country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia...

. Arrested by Soviet authorities on December 11 of 1988 on charges of obstructing humanitarian aid from Azerbaijan after the December 7th 1988 Spitak earthquake, the leaders of Karabakh Committee were released on May 31 of 1989 to form the Pan-Armenian National Movement

Pan-Armenian National Movement

The Pan-Armenian National Movement or Armenian Allnational Movement is a political party representing Armenian national movement in Armenia Presently without parliamentary representation.It was founded by Levon Ter-Petrossian in 1989 and became the ruling party when it swept the 1990 elections...

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Leaders

• Rafael Ghazaryan
  Rafael Ghazaryan
  Rafael Ghazaryan was an Armenian radio-physicist, academician, public activist, a member of Karabakh Committee.Ghazaryan was a World War II veteran. He is an author of a number of works on radiophysics, laser atmosphere technics and light modulation, a member of the National Academy of Sciences of...
  
  
• Ashot Manucharyan
• Vazgen Manukyan
  Vazgen Manukyan
  Vazgen Manukyan was Prime Minister of Armenia from 1990 to 1991. From 1992 to 1993 Manukyan was acting Minister of Defense....
  
  
• Vano Siradeghyan
• Hambartsum Galstyan
• Babken Ararktsyan
  Babken Ararktsyan
  Babken Gurgenovich Ararktsyan is a former chairman of the National Assembly of Armenia , former chairman of the Soviet of Armenian SSR.-Biography:* 1951 - 1961 - Learning in the Yerevan secondary school № 55...
  
  
• Levon Ter-Petrosyan, and others.