MHRMI - Macedonian Human Rights Movement International

MHRMI Response to National Post Letter "Canadian Greeks: Don't rewrite Balkan history"

January 17, 2012

Why the National Post chose to be "objective" and let the Greek community have equal time in responding to the recent op-ed about Macedonia is beyond me. One should not give the oppressor the opportunity to justify its brutal actions against the oppressed.

The vast majority of readers, understandably, have no interest in hearing the long, drawn out version of Greece's romanticized history. Greece is the only country in the Western world to claim that it has no ethnic minorities and proudly proclaims its "ethnic purity". Dangerous statements coming from the self-proclaimed "birthplace of democracy".

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Macedonian Human Rights Review - Issue #9 - January 2012

January 16, 2012

In this edition of the MHR Review:
One Hundred Year's Ago: The Partition of Macedonia – George Vlahov;
MHRMI and AMHRC Reiterate Demand that Macedonia End Name 'Negotiations';
Show Your Support for Macedonian Human Rights;
To the Foreign Minister of Australia – David Vitkov;
To SBS and WUG – Goran Babuasku;
Hague Judgement Reinforces Need for Macedonia to End Name 'Negotiations';
Random Summer Thoughts – George Papadakis;
Успешна Приказна на Мигрант од Македонија – Игор Павловски;
A Review of Meto Jovanovski's Novel: Cousins – Dr. Michael Seraphinoff;
AMHRC and MHRMI Denounce Albania's Census;
We need to Reinvigorate and Quickly – Eftim Mitrevski;
Landmark Study of Macedonian Language nears Completion – Dr. Chris Popov;
Interview with DJ Mangal – John Tsiglev;
AMHRC Meets with Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard;
Political Lobbying and Australia's Macedonian Community – Sasha Nackovski;
Our Soul is Always There – Dimitri Jovanov;
Historic Moments in Lerin – Dimitri Jovanov;
Speech by Professor Victor A. Friedman at the launch of the New Macedonian to Greek Dictionary in Lerin;
The 2001 Civil Conflict in Macedonia and the Framework Agreement – Vasko Nastevski ;

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Hague Judgement Reinforces Need for Macedonia to End Shameful Name Negotiations

Press Release

December 5, 2011

Not that any more incentive should be needed to stop negotiating your own name, but in a 15-1 vote, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague ruled today that Greece violated the United Nations' sponsored Interim Accord when it vetoed the Republic of Macedonia's entry to the NATO.
Following the Greek veto, in November 2008, Macedonia lodged an application at the ICJ arguing that Greece had violated the terms of the 1995 agreement between the two countries. Under the accord, Greece pledged not to block Macedonia's entry into international organisations under the so called United Nations' provisional reference, "the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia".

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Show your support for Macedonian Human Rights. Silence is NOT an option!

Press Release

November 22, 2011

MHRMI and AMHRC call on Macedonians throughout the world to show their support for human rights for Macedonians throughout the Balkans.
MHRMI and AMHRC finance and organize all Macedonian human rights activities and work directly with every Macedonian human rights organization including Vinozhito, OMO Ilinden PIRIN, MAEI, Nova Zora, Narodna Volja, Ilinden Tirana, the Home of Macedonian Culture, and all others.
By supporting us, you are directly supporting the cause of human rights for all Macedonians.

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MHRMI and AMHRC denounce Albania's denial of Macedonian identity during its Census

Press Release

October 6, 2011

MHRMI and AMHRC denounce Albania's state-sponsored persecution of its Macedonian minority during the implementation of its census.
In the region of Golo Brdo, census taker instructors openly stated that the Macedonian language will be excluded as an answer to the question of what language is spoken at home. This was later confirmed in the field and other reports assert that census takers have been skipping questions 38 and 39 which pertain to language spoken and to ethnicity. "We feel like a threatened species, we are simply erased" declared Edmond Osmani, Vice President of MAEI.

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MHRMI and AMHRC Reiterate Demand That Macedonia End Name Negotiations

Press Release

September 8, 2011

On the occasion of the Republic of Macedonia's 20th anniversary of its independence, Macedonian Human Rights Movement International (MHRMI) and the Australian Macedonian Human Rights Committee (AMHRC) reiterate our demand that Macedonia immediately cease negotiations over its name.
It is a disgrace that Macedonia, by participating in the negotiations, is violating its own most basic human right, that of self-identification. It is reprehensible that the Western world, despite having recognized Macedonia, is insisting that Macedonia change its name.

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MP Karygiannis accused of berating civil servants

August 29, 2011

Controversial Liberal MP Jim Karygiannis is the focus of complaints from Canadian government officials over allegedly verbally abusive behaviour, CBC News has learned.
Immigration officials have complained that Karygiannis, the MP for Ontario's Scarborough-Agincourt riding, has used what they call unparliamentary language on multiple occasions in dealing with staff and takes an aggressive tone with civil servants. Controversial Liberal MP Jim Karygiannis is the focus of complaints from Canadian government officials over allegedly verbally abusive behaviour, CBC News has learned.
Reached by CBC News, Karygiannis said he suspects there is an orchestrated campaign to smear him.

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OMO „Ilinden" - PIRIN, AMHRC and MHRMI Condemn Bulgarian Census „Results"

Press Release

July 25, 2011

OMO "Ilinden" - PIRIN, the political party of the Macedonian minority in Bulgaria, the Australian Macedonian Human Rights Committee (AMHRC) and Macedonian Human Rights Movement International (MHRMI) confirm that after an abnormally long delay, the results of the Census in Bulgaria, held in February 2011, have at last been announced. Due to the absurdly large number of manipulations which were carried out during the period in which it was held, the Census results were declared as invalid by OMO "Ilinden" PIRIN and other Macedonian organizations in Bulgaria as early as April this year.

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MHRMI and AMHRC Denounce Clinton's Demands that Macedonia "Solve" the Name Dispute

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July 19, 2011

MHRMI and AMHRC denounce US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's statement that, "The government in Skopje needs to know that it will not be able to move forward on its European integration until it does resolve this (issue). And, obviously, Greece has to be willing to accept how the name is resolved." In other words Clinton has told a sovereign nation – Macedonia - that it must surrender the most basic right possessed by any state – the right to self-identification; if it wants to become a part of Europe. The US, 'leader of the free world', as on other occasions in relation to Macedonia, has shown itself to be unequal to the task of upholding the most basic tenants of liberty and indeed international law.

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OMO „Ilinden" - PIRIN, AMHRC, MHRMI Welcome Visit of United Nations Independent Expert on Minority Issues to Bulgaria

Press Release

July 7, 2011

OMO „Ilinden" - PIRIN, the political party of the Macedonian minority in Bulgaria, the Australian Macedonian Human Rights Committee (AMHRC) and Macedonian Human Rights Movement International (MHRMI) welcome this week's visit of the Independent Expert on Minority Issues, Gay McDougall, to Bulgaria.
Today, the Independent Expert met with representatives of the Macedonian minority in the country. The delegation comprised of: Stojko Stojkov, Co-President of OMO „Ilinden" - PIRIN, Stahil Tupalski, Central Council Member of OMO „Ilinden" - PIRIN; Stojan Gerasimov from the Society of Repressed Macedonians, and Georgi Hristov, the Chief Editor of the pro-Macedonian newspaper „Narodna Volja“.

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Macedonians Demand Resignation of Liberal MP Jim Karygiannis

Press Release

May 11, 2011

As expected, the Liberal Party of Canada has, once again, completely ignored racism within their own party. As reported by Macedonian Human Rights Movement International (MHRMI) on March 8, 2011, Liberal MP Jim Karygiannis spewed out more anti-Macedonian hate, caught on video, at a lecture titled "Insight to Hellenism" at the University of Toronto on March 5, 2011.
While praising the lecture, which glorified Greece's persecution of Macedonians and which defended the bombing of Macedonian civilians during Greece's Civil War, Karygiannis once again referred to Macedonians as "Skopjans". This is a term used by Greece to negate the ethnic identity of Macedonians and evokes Greece’s horrific campaigns, past and present, at ethnically cleansing or forcibly assimilating its large Macedonian minority.

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