Vicken Babkenian
Vicken Babkenian is an independent researcher for the Australian Institute for Holocaust and Genocide Studies and the co-author with Prof. Peter Stanley of Armenia, Australia and the Great War (NewSouth 2016)
Recent articles by Vicken Babkenian
1 October 2023
Armenians need Australias help again
A campaign of ethnic cleansing, or what the former Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Luis Moreno Ocampo, has warned may qualify as Genocide, is currently taking place against the 120,000 indigenous Christian Armenian population of Artsakh (aka Nagorno Karabakh). A historic Christian Armenian enclave within the borders of todays Azerbaijan, its Armenian population has been subjected to a nine month blockade and a subsequent brutal military assault that has left hundreds killed and tens of thousands as refugees.