He exhorted the inhabitants of Sasun to fight to their last drop of blood to defend their mountains and houses.

During his exile the Social Democrat Hunchakian Party convention elected Mourad as a member of its Central Committee.

[6] Murad, a Hunchakian who never gave up on the dream of a united and independent Armenia was labelled, like thousands of others, an undesirable by the Young Turk Government.

He was among the first to be arrested on 24 April 1915 (known as Red Sunday), on the eve of the Armenian genocide, and sent to Kayseri, where he was severely tortured in prison.

[7][8] From 1992 to 1994, a battalion named after Medzn Murad led by Gevorg Guzelian took part in the First Nagorno-Karabakh War.