At the beginning of the Armenian Genocide in 1915 , Murad was at Sivas . After the order of deportation , in March 1915 Turkish gendarmes were sent to arrest Murad on the order of the Vali of Sivas . The Ottoman authorities had promised the Armenian population that they would be excluded from deportations if they handed Murad over . Many Armenians , particularly the elders who did not want to leave their property and home , began to report the Ottoman authorities about his whereabouts . Escaping capture , Murad and a small band of compatriots took to the hills and engaged in guerilla warfare against Turkish cavalry and infantry units sent to find him . In the autumn of 1915 he moved towards the Black Sea coast at Samsun where , joined by some Greek rebels , he captured a sailboat and escaped to the Russian port of Batum . He then travelled to Tiflis and joined the First Armenian Volunteer Battalion in the Russian forces . When in Tiflis he gave an account of his adventures , and the fate of the Armenian population of the Sivas vilayet , that appeared in James Bryce 's report " The Treatment of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire " . He was with the Armenian Volunteer Battalion at the Battle of Erzinjan , and in Erzingan he organised a fund which rescued hundreds of Armenian women and children being held in Turkish and Kurdish households . He was killed leading a charge against Turkish positions during the Battle of Baku on 4 August 1918
Armenian Genocide
Armenian Genocide
Sebastatsi Murad