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Chakhmakhchyan, Svetah · Meyroyan, Edgar, 2025
International Journal of Armenian Genocide Studies, Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 102–128 (Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute, Yerevan); DOI 10.51442/ijags.0065
Targets a gap in genocide law: the under-use of Article II(c) of the Genocide Convention: 'deliberately inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about physical destruction', against strategies of deprivation that kill a group slowly. Blockades, sieges, and enforced isolation produce attrition that escapes timely legal recognition because the harm unfolds gradually and specific intent is harder to prove, so such acts get downgraded to humanitarian crises or war crimes. The authors clarify the doctrinal scope of Article II(c), synthesize the jurisprudence on actus reus and genocidal intent without a body-count threshold, and turn it into an early-warning and charging framework with objective triggers such as sustained supply shortfalls, health-system collapse, and repeated obstruction of humanitarian access. A proof-of-concept applies the framework to the blockade of the Berdzor Corridor.
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Elamiryan, Ruben, 2024
Journal of Political Science: Bulletin of Yerevan University, Vol. 3, No. 1(7), pp. 10–23 (Yerevan State University); DOI 10.46991/JOPS/2024.3.7.010
Argues that the Third Artsakh war transformed the security environment of the South Caucasus and exposed the parameters of hybrid warfare as a new conflict format. The paper analyzes the strategies, tactics, and instruments Azerbaijan deployed against Artsakh, holding that hybrid operations were not new but were sharply intensified after the 44-day war. It identifies the components of the campaign: information-psychological influence operations, economic and energy pressure, ecological claims, the blockade, international campaigning, efforts to split Armenian political power in Armenia and the diaspora, and sabotage against critical infrastructure. The author frames the outcome as a full-scale hybrid operation aimed at producing an Artsakh without Armenians.
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Gzoyan, Edita · Chakhmakhchyan, Svetah · Meyroyan, Edgar, 2023
International Journal of Armenian Genocide Studies, Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 56–85 (Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute, Yerevan); DOI 10.51442/ijags.0045
After ten months of blockade-induced starvation and medical emergency, Artsakh was attacked by Azerbaijan on 19 September 2023 and its de facto state forced to capitulate. In the days that followed nearly 120,000 Armenians were forcibly displaced from their indigenous lands. International actors quickly reached for the label 'ethnic cleansing,' but no settled legal definition of that term exists, which creates problems of both characterization and responsibility. The article traces the historical and legal development of the concept and tests its application to the forced displacement of Armenians from Artsakh, setting it against the longer record of institutionalized anti-Armenian persecution and violence.
