After spending two years in terrible conditions in Ottoman prisons , and undergoing lengthy mock trials , twenty prominent figures - Paramaz , Dr. Benne , Aram Achekbashian , Vanig and others were sentenced to death by hanging . A few weeks after the beginning of the Armenian Genocide on June 15 , 1915 , all twenty men were hanged in the central square of Constantinople , known as Sultan Bayazid Square . Paramaz 's last words before his hanging were , " You can only hang our bodies , but not our ideology . ... You will see tomorrow on the Eastern horizon a Socialist Armenia . " The names are written according to the writer and publisher Teotig . Two other prominent Hunchakian activists , Stepan Sapah-Gulian and Varaztahd , were condemned to death '' in absentia ''
Armenian Genocide
Armenian Genocide
The 20 Hunchakian gallows