Every day, I listen to old white men discuss how they're going to change MY ethnicity, my country's name, identity, language, and history - all in the name of appeasing our oppressors - who deny our right to exist. Imagine this happening to you and your ethnic group. It's surreal.
Authors: Committee for the Defence of Human Rights "Tolerantnost” with the support of OMO ”Ilinden”-PIRIN and the newspaper "Narodna Volya” Contents: • Introduction • Denial of the Existence of a Macedonian Minority, Nation and Identity • Hate Speech • Violation of the Right of Association • Organized Harassment • ...
by Professor James Pettifer - A personal view In a speech on April 15th, 2018, as reported in the Athens newspaper 'Kathimerini', NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg called on Greece and Turkey to improve their relations and also stated that their current difficulties which have led to a military fatality last week are not a matter for NATO.
EFA General Assembly, Landshut, 13/4/2018 on behalf of OMO "Ilinden”- PIRIN and EFA - Rainbow/Vinozhito Bearing in mind that: a. The Macedonian minorities living as indigenous populations in Greece and Bulgaria continue to face discrimination and even negation of their existence by the two mentioned countries.
The latest Our Name Is Macedonia billboards contain a message to Macedonians in the Republic of Macedonia from oppressed Macedonians in Pirin Macedonia saying - "Do not take away my name and identity". "We are struggling to attain our basic human rights and recognition as who we are - Macedonians.
(Merrillville, Indiana - March 13, 2018) -- Macedonian Human Rights Movement International member, Susie Talevski, met with Member of Congress, Peter Visclosky, of the Congressional Macedonia Caucus, to discuss the crisis surrounding Macedonia's name and the blatant attacks against Macedonia's right to self-determination.