Following the receipt of anti-Macedonian hate mail (see below), Macedonian Human Rights Movement International has filed a hate crime report with the Toronto Police, who have launched an investigation. Specifically, the "wilful promotion of hatred" is defined by the Criminal Code of Canada as:
Published in iAffairs Canada / Canadian Foreign Policy Journal
The leader of a new Macedonian political party was texting me in the middle of the night recently, giving me updates on her spokeswoman's surgery to repair two broken legs, suffered at the hands of riot police earlier that night. Her crime? Attending a peaceful protest against changing Macedonia's name and identity.
The leader of a new Macedonian political party was texting me in the middle of the night recently, giving me updates on her spokeswoman's surgery to repair two broken legs, suffered at the hands of riot police earlier that night. Her crime? Attending a peaceful protest against changing Macedonia's name and identity.
If somebody told you that an entire ethnic group's name and identity was being changed to appease its oppressors, you would react in outrage. If they followed up by saying, "Oh wait, it's a diplomatic dispute", would your response be "That's okay then. They should resolve this dispute by denying their own existence"? This is what's happening to Macedonia and Macedonians.
(by Vele Tosevski, MHRMI Director of Community Outreach, AMSUT President) My people, they are dividing you. With their policies, their empty promises and their personal interests, they make you quarrel and fight each other so that they can succeed in the end - to make Macedonia an anti-democratic country, unconstitutional and without rights.
Macedonian Human Rights Movement International - June 13, 2018 What problem does Traitor Zaev believe he is accomplishing by adding a geographical qualifier in front of the Republic of Macedonia's name? The only answer given by illegitimate "Prime Minister" Zaev so far is his obsession with "not offending Greece" ...
The United Macedonian Diaspora (UMD), based in Washington, D.C., is pleased to announce its unequivocal support for the #OurNameisMacedonia Campaign, spearheaded by Macedonian Human Rights Movement International (MHRMI), based in Toronto, Canada. At the same time, UMD would like to thank MHRMI for supporting the #WeAreMacedonia Campaign.
Macedonian Human Rights Movement International condemns the passing of the Law on Languages in the Macedonian Parliament on 11 January 2018. This law is not only unconstitutional in that it has granted official status to the Albanian language without the necessary two-thirds majority in Parliament, but seriously discriminates against ...
World Macedonian Congress - Canada congratulates the Macedonian Human Rights Movement International (MHRMI) on a successful launch of the "OUR NAME IS MACEDONIA" campaign in Skopje, Bitola, Tetovo and soon in additional cities throughout Macedonia along with television and radio commercials, newspaper and online ads.
Macedonian Human Rights Movement International President, Bill Nicholov, met with Canadian Ambassador to Macedonia, Philip Pinnington on May 18, 2017, and reiterated MHRMI's position that the West is undermining Macedonia's sovereignty by supporting a coalition whose public goal is to denationalize Macedonia, and who benefited from blatant US/Albania foreign interference.