James Karnusian (1926 in Beirut, Lebanon – April 8, 1998, in Bern, Switzerland) was a Swiss-Armenian protestant pastor, writer and public activist.
A son of Armenian genocide survivors from Musa Ler,[1] Karnusian was born in 1926 in a camp of refugees in Beirut.
[4] "Our priority remains the recovery of Western Armenia occupied by Turkey," he explained.
[5] In 1992 he co-founded the Switzerland-Armenia Association (GSA - Gesellschaft Schweiz-Armenien) together with Hans Schellenberg, civil servant in the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, and former deputy of National Council of Switzerland Alexander Euler.
[4] He was allegedly one of the founders of Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia militant organization,[6] alongside Hagop Hagopian (real name Harutiun Tagushian) and Kevork Ajemian, a literary figure and publisher of the literary publication Spurk.