Background
Ara-Alexander Yenikomshian was born in 1955 in Beirut.
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Alexander Yenikomshian
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In 1978 he finished the Faculty of Economy of the American University of Beirut.
Career
He is best known for his participation in a Geneva hotel bombing on October 3, 1980, when a bomb that he was preparing together with Suzy Mahseredjian went off prematurely, leaving him blind and severing his left hand. Authorities charged that the two had been waiting to be told where to plant the bomb when it exploded. Yenikomshian was convicted on an illegal-explosives charge, given an 18-month suspended sentence and expelled from Switzerland.
Mahseredjian was convicted of extorting money for the ASALA, given an 18-month suspended sentence and expelled to the United States.
Their arrest lead to the formation of a new ASALA group called the "October 3 Group", which subsequently attacked Swiss targets in reprisal against the arrest and prosecution of Mahseredjian and Yenikomshian. In 1996 he moved to Armenia.
Yenikomshian hosts Aylentrank on Lratvakan radio.
Membership
Being the first disclosed members of ASALA, Yenikomshian and United States citizen Mahseredjian were arrested. He is a member of the Secretary of the PreParliament public organization (Armenia).
