Guram Mamulia (Georgian:გურამ მამულია; May 9, 1937 – January 1, 2003) was aGeorgian historian, politician and campaigner forMeskhetian rights. A month after Mamulia was born, his father,Samson Mamulia was imprisoned and executed byJoseph Stalin's government. He was raised by his aunt. He graduated with a degree in history fromTbilisi State University in 1960. He began teaching at Tbilisi University in 1973.[1]
In 1981 he was expelled from the Communist Party after protesting on behalf of dissidents. In 1983 he was removed from his position at the University for publishing an article condemning theTreaty of Georgievsk of 1783 whereby Russia established a protectorate over Georgia. In 1988 he was a co-founder of theIlia Chavchavadze Society.[1] The next year he helped found the Georgian Memorial Society which was devoted to memorializing victims of the Soviets. He was a supporter ofEduard Shevardnadze and was elected to Georgia's parliament in 1992 where he was involved in inter-ethnic relations. He helped found the independentAssociation for the Repatriation and Integration of Meskhetians which supported the repatriation of Meskhetians as a condition to enter theCouncil of Europe and he was involved with theInternational Black Sea University, a UN supported program for cooperation between Georgian and Turkish academics.[2]