Much of the Unionist leadership was assassinated between 1920-22 in Operation Nemesis . The Armenian Revolutionary Federation ( '' Dashnaktsutyun '' ) sent out assassins to hunt down and kill the Unionists responsible for the Armenian genocide . Talaat Pasha , the Interior Minister in 1915 and a member of the ruling triumvirate was gunned down in Berlin by a '' Dashnak '' on 15 March 1921 . Said Halim Pasha , the Grand Vizier who signed the deportation orders in 1915 was killed in Rome on 5 December 1921 . Dr. Behaeddin Shakir , the commander of the much dreaded Special Organisation was killed in Berlin on 17 April 1922 by a '' Dashnak '' gunman . Another member of the ruling triumvirate , Djemal Pasha was killed on 21 July 1922 in Tbilisi by the '' Dashnaks '' . The final member of the Three Pashas , General Enver Pasha was killed while fighting against the Red Army in Central Asia first
Operation Nemesis
Operation Nemesis
Committee of Union and Progress