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He was then sent to Malta pending military trials for crimes against humanity, which never materialized, and was subsequently exchanged by the British for hostages held by Turkish forces. The Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF) blamed Behaeddin Shakir for involvement in the, specifically in the communications between Musavat and the Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom. Dunsterville ordered the evacuation of the city on September 14, after six weeks of occupation, and withdrew to Iran. Most of the Armenian population escaped with the British forces.
However, after the Armistice of Mudros between Great Britain and the Ottoman Empire on October 30, Turkish troops were substituted for those of the Triple Entente.
Headed by British general William Thomson, who had declared himself the military governor of Baku, 5,000 Commonwealth soldiers arrived in Baku on November 17, 1918. By General Thomson"s order, martial law was implemented in Baku.
Behaeddin Shakir was claimed to be the central figure of the Teşkilat-i Mahsusa. This is sometimes used as proof of a state organized genocide using the tehcir (deportations) process of the Tehcir law.
Halil Berktay says that local administrators objected to Behaeddin Shakir"s deportation orders and called for his arrest.
Dissidents were usually replaced by hardliners. Sometimes twice if the replacement was not pliant. In the autumn of 1919, the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF), part of the Armenian national liberation movement, ruled to punish the executors of the Under Operation Nemesis, Aram Yerganian and Arshavir Shirakian were given the task to assassinate both Cemal Azmi and Sakir who were in Berlin.
On April 17, 1922, Shirakian and Yerganian encountered Azmi and Sakir who were walking with their families at the Uhlandstrasse street.
Shirakian managed to kill only Azmi and wound Sakir. Yerganian immediately ran after Sakir and killed him with a shot to his head
The assassins were never detained.