Career
Kapamajian was appointed the mayor of Van on February 2, 1908. The Armenian Revolutionary Federation (aka ARF) accused Kapamajian of being a puppet of the Ottoman Government. According to Turkish sources, Kapamajian was executed with two gun shot wounds in the head by ARF leader Aram Manukian and his ARF fellows in 1912.
In his research, Turkish Historian Hasan Oktay states that the perpetrators of his murder were arrested and charged with "encouraging murder." However, the perpetrators were later released and murder charges were dropped, as the case was later highly politicized by ARF.
