Macedonian Human Rights Movement International

Rann accused of playing the race card

February 9, 2010

South Australian Premier Mike Rann could face charges of inciting racial hatred as Macedonian outrage over a speech he made at a Greek festival threatens to explode into a major diplomatic incident.
The embassy of the Macedonian Republic in Canberra yesterday deplored Mr Rann's comments, which included an allegation that President Gjorge Ivanov was "stirring up trouble"in a dangerous manner and trying to steal Greek history and culture. Mr Rann cited the naming of a Macedonian airport and highway after Alexander the Great as evidence.

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Letter to Premier of South Australia, by AMHRC

February 4, 2010

"We have been made aware of your attendance last year at the 31st Annual “Dimitria Greek Festival” (29/11/09) in South Australia. Upon listening to the speech you delivered to the Greek community at this event, we came to the conclusion that it was inflammatory, bigoted and offensive."

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Voskopoulos: Verdict is small window towards true democracy

January 28, 2010

Two Greek journalists were found guilty of slander and were sentenced to five months suspended prison term. Dimitris Kapsalis, director of Greek national radio, and Kokos Telemahos, journalist at the national radio, were convicted over libel dated from 2005. The two journalists described Voskopoulos as "Skopje's agent", "anti-Greek mercenary" and "separatist".

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The EU Circus: Greece, France, Macedonia and Turkey

January 27, 2010

Discussion regarding the accession of Macedonia into the European Union was postponed until June 2010. Two countries have delayed this process, the first of course being Greece which cannot accept Macedonia being a member of the EU. Neither can it accept the name 'Macedonia' nor the Macedonian idenity or language. In other words, everything that has any connotation to 'Macedonia' and 'Macedonian' is unacceptable to Greece.

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I Accept Prefix 'Ethnic Macedonian'

January 11, 2010

Greek Alternate Foreign Minister Dhimitris Dhroutsas should explain on the basis of what criteria and standards he proclaims to be a Macedonian, while denying the same right to me and a number of other citizens, asks Pavle Voskopoulos, member of the collective leadership of the ethnic Macedonian party in Greece Vinozito. He believes that statements such as that by Dhroutsas, in which the existence of a separate ethnic Macedonian identity is utterly negated, promote neo-Nazism in Greece.

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MHRMI and AMHRC Condemn Greece's Continued Blacklisting of Ethnic Macedonians

Press Release

December 23, 2009

Greece continues to blacklist Macedonians who are active in human rights organizations abroad or who are political refugees*. The latest reported incident occurred on December 19, 2009, when Macedonian citizen, Nikola Kosturski, a member of the Association of Child Refugees (Detsa Begaltsi) in Bitola, was denied entry because he "is a person for whom an alert has been issued for the purposes of refusing entry" and is "in the national register".

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MHRMI and United Macedonians Contribute to Canadian Museum for Human Rights

Press Release

December 17, 2009

Macedonian Human Rights Movement International (MHRMI) and the United Macedonians Organization of Canada (UM) participated at the December 1, 2009 roundtable discussion organized by the Canadian Museum for Human Rights. The goal of this meeting was to help develop content and exhibits for the new Museum, due to open in Winnipeg in 2012.

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AMHRC/MHRMI Condemn European Betrayal of OMO “ILINDEN” PIRIN

Press Release

December 7, 2009

The Australian Macedonian Human Rights Committee and Macedonian Human Rights Movement International, have written in protest to the Council of Europe after an appalling decision was taken by the Committee of Ministers (COM - 1/12/09) in Strasbourg, to end the monitoring of the execution of the 2005 judgement of the European Court of Human Rights involving Bulgaria and the de-registration of OMO “Ilinden” - PIRIN.

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MHRMI Newsletter - Summer '09

In this issue...

Greek Neo-Nazis Disrupt Presentation of Macedonian/Greek Dictionary.
Grece's State-Sponsored Racism Re-Appears in Canada.
MHRMI and AMHRC Call on Macedonians Abroad to Report Discrimination by Greece.

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Stephen Harper Celebrates the United Macedonian's Anniversary

The Right Honourable, Stephen Harper. Mr. Harper is the first Canadian Prime Minister to attend an event organized by the United Macedonians or to visit the first and largest Macedonian cathedral in Canada.
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OSCE Human Rights Conference

Macedonian minority representatives, attended this year's Human Dimension Implementation Meeting (Europe's largest human rights and democracy conference), and presented reports on the violation of the Macedonian minority's rights in Greece and Bulgaria.
See the reports here.

MHRMI Annual Report

The Macedonian Minority in Greece, outlining Greece’s systematic policy of forced assimilation and persecution of its Macedonian minority. - Read MHRMI's 2008 Annual Report