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Articles by Vicken Babkenian
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).
Armenians need Australia’s 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).
Frances Willard: Armenia’s Angel on Capitol Hill
Marble statue of Frances Willard in National Statuary Hall, US Capitol (Photo: Architect of the Capitol) Inside the National Statuary Hall in the United States Capitol, Washington, D.C., each state is represented by a statue of its most honored citizen. While most of the 50 states have chosen men to represent them, it was Illinois, the land of Abraham Lincoln, which became the first state to select a woman. Her name is Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard.
The Making of 'Armenia, Australia and the Great War'
Australian relief workers among hundreds of Armenian orphans at the Antelias orphanage, Lebanon, 1923. Courtesy of Missak Kelechian On April 25, 1915, just a day after the mass arrest of Armenian leaders in the capital of the Ottoman Empire, Constantinople, a large force of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (Anzacs) landed on the Gallipoli peninsula as part of an allied effort to capture Constantinople.
Before 'Ravished Armenia'...
When the American-made motion picture Ravished Armenia was released in 1919, it became the first film to tell the story of the World War I Armenian Genocide through the eyes of a survivor, Aurora Mardiganian. Directed by Oscar Apfel and produced by early film pioneer Colonel William Selig, the eight-reel silent film was commissioned by the American Committee of Armenian and Syrian Relief (ACASR).
Australia’s Armenian story
Captain Thomas White of the Australian Flying Corps – second from the left in this photo taken in Basra, Mesopotamia (now Iraq), in July 1915 – had his first encounter with the Armenian massacres at Tel Armen, in the north of Iraq. Australian War Memorial Captain Thomas White of the Australian Flying Corps – second from the left in this photo taken in Basra, Mesopotamia (now Iraq), in July 1915 – had his first encounter with the Armenian massacres at Tel Armen, in the north of Iraq.
Book Review: 'Armenia, Australia & the Great War'
By Vicken Babkenian and Peter Stanley University of New South Wales Press (September 1, 2016), 336 pages ISBN-13: 978-1742233994; Paperback, $34.99 To date, works of scholarship have addressed numerous facets of the Armenian Genocide, from the systemic organization of the genocide begun by the Young Turks in 1915 to the subsequent plight of surviving Armenians.
‘The Ottoman Lieutenant’: Another Denialist ‘Water Diviner’
On the eve of the First World War, approximately 170 American missionaries—many of them women—were scattered among the Armenian communities in the Ottoman (Turkish) Empire.[1] By early 1915, the imperial government had imposed strict censorship on correspondence from the eastern provinces. As the deportations and massacres of Armenians began in April 1915, American missionaries were warned by Ottoman authorities against reporting on local conditions.
Armenia, Australia & the Great War
Australian civilians worked for decades supporting the survivors and orphans of the Armenian Genocide. 24 April 1915 marks the beginning of two great epics of the First World War. It was the day the allied invasion forces set out for Gallipoli; and it marked the beginning of what became the Genocide of the Ottoman Empire’s Armenians.
Hollywood’s First Celebrity Humanitarian that America Forgot
A story that made the rounds in Hollywood in the 1960’s told of how a little girl who had been a fan of the TV series “The Addams Family” was lunching with her mother in a studio cafe, when she spotted the actor who played Uncle Fester. The girl excitedly approached the beefy 50-year-old man and asked him for his autograph. With a broad smile, he signed, “Jackie Coogan.” Studying the signature with great dismay, the little girl cried out, “Who’s Jackie Coogan?
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