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How the West Was Lost... Thankfully for Macedonia
Dangling EU membership for over a decade - with the condition that you change your country's age-old name first to appease an oppressor - then visiting "this country”, refusing to call it by its name, and finally calling on [insert capital city name here to avoid country's name] to ...
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MHRMI Meets With US State Department - Calls For Condemnation of Tirana Platform, End to US Foreign Interference
Macedonian Human Rights Movement International President, Bill Nicholov, met again with relevant US State Department officials and reiterated MHRMI's call for the United States to condemn the Tirana Platform, instead of condoning and advocating for it. MHRMI called for Ambassador Jess Baily to be immediately removed from his post ...
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MHRMI Applauds Macedonians for Defending Macedonia and Rejecting Tirana Platform - Reiterates Call to End the Name Negotiations
Macedonian Human Rights Movement International applauds Macedonians, from all political parties, for coming together in defence of Macedonia and condemning the Tirana Platform - which was aimed at the creation of Greater Albania at the expense of Macedonia's territorial integrity. President Ivanov's denial of a mandate to Zoran Zaev, ...
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MHRMI Published in The Hill Times: Toronto Mayor Must Denounce, Reprimand Anti-Macedonian Councillor Jim Karygiannis
Source: hilltimes.com During the electoral campaign and first few months in office, Mayor John Tory gave Torontonians their own version of Barack Obama's "Hope” message. But the hope of "Hope” has been waning. Putting aside (sort of) the fact that he flip-flopped on a key campaign issue - ...
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MHRMI Condemns the European Parliament's Resolution Claiming that Macedonians are "Bulgarian"
Is the European Parliament ignorant or anti-Macedonian? These are the only two options. In a blatant display of sheer lunacy, the European Parliament passed a resolution calling on Albania to protect the rights of its "Bulgarian” minority - in Macedonian-inhabited areas of Albania - and "recommends that the rights ...
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US Congressman Calls for Partition of Macedonia - MHRMI Demands his Resignation and Reprimand, Calls for Support for Macedonia from President Trump
As if the first partition of Macedonia wasn't enough, US Congressman Dana Rohrabacher decided to call for the further partition of Macedonia, saying "I am sorry to say but it is not a state. Kosovars and Albanians in Macedonia should become part of Kosovo. The other part of Macedonia should become part of Bulgaria, or whatever country they allege to belong.” The country that Macedonians belong to, Mr.
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Human Rights Watch Declines to Denounce Name Negotiations as Attack on Macedonia's Most Basic of Rights
Despite requests by Macedonian Human Rights Movement International that Human Rights Watch (HRW) - as one of the world's most influential human rights organizations - denounce the UN-sponsored name negotiations aimed at changing Macedonia's name, HRW has declined. The reason given by Benjamin Ward, Deputy Director of HRW's Europe ...
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MHRMI Defends the Existence of the Macedonian Nation - Yes, It's the Year 2016
The Hill: It's 2016, and Macedonia is a real place Georgea Polizos makes a perfect presentation of Greece's illogical and incoherent, ever-changing, position on the Macedonia issue in her response to my op-ed in The Hill. But before I get to Ms. Polizos' technical justification about why it's acceptable ...
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Exchange in The Hill on Podesta's use of "fyrom" instead of Macedonia
A comment by Bill Nicholov from the Macedonian Human Rights Movement International, published in The Hill, sparked an exchange with the American Hellenic Institute, on the use of the temporary reference. Nicholov wrote about the revelation in the Wikileaks cache of hacked emails, that Hillary Clinton's campaign head John ...
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Victims of lesser-known forms of racism face an uphill battle
Source: thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/foreign-policy/307664-when-greece-and-hillary-clinton-tried-to-erase-macedonia What if a politician or his/her campaign chair made a derogatory comment that negates the ethnic origin of an entire group, and continued a policy that ignores persecution of this group and seeks to change its ethnic identity? Breaking news, right? Huge scandal? Only if it's a higher-profile group.