| OPEN LETTER TO THE WORLDJune 23 2001 at 7:25 AM
No score for this post | ILINDEN THE MACEDONIAN (no login) |
| Why is Macedonia not helped by the world powers?
On August 10, 1913 Macedonia was divided among Serbia, Greece, and
Bulgaria in the Bucharest Treaty. Since then the people of Macedonia
that are living under the Greek and Bulgarian governments have not had a
fair life. These Macedonian people do not have human rights under Greek
and Bulgarian law. Under the laws of these two countries the Macedonians
do not exist as a people. No other world power has stepped forward to
force the Greeks and Bulgarians to grant Macedonians the same rights
that others take for granted. No other world power came to Greece to
stop them from changing the first and last names of the Macedonians into
Greek in 1926. No one came forward to help the Macedonians when their
language was suppressed by the Greeks in 1936. The Macedonians do not
have their own schools, churches, television, radio, etc. in the
Macedonian language. They have no representatives in parliament. They
are persecuted for even speaking Macedonian in their own homes. Even
today, in the 21st century in Aegean Macedonia you are not allowed to
baptise a baby with a Macedonian name. Even today, when somebody dies
they are not allowed to have their cemetary marker written in
Macedonian. Since the Greek occupation of Aegean Macedonia inscriptions
were destroyed or overwritten in churches and icons, and on tombstones
by the Greeks. Nothing was sacred to them or out of bounds. According to
the Greeks everything Macedonian had to be wiped out.
The Greek are always saying "Macedonia, 4000 years Greek". Is this was
true then why did the Greeks delete this name of Macedonia and call the
land they now occupied New Territory in 1913? Later on Macedonia was
renamed Northern Greece and only recently have the Greeks started using
the word Macedonia again. If the Greeks are to be believed that
Macedonia was always theirs then why all the name changes, why stomp on
the Macedonian people? If the Macedonians living in Albania, Greece,
Bulgaria had been given the same human rights as the minorities living
in the Republic of Macedonia have then there would be a great deal more
peace in the Balkans today than ever before.
Even to this day the Greek lobby is working overtime. Take the problem
the Greeks have caused with the United Nations. Macedonia cannot use her
constitutional name "Republic of Macedonia". Macedonia has to use the
name chosen by the U.N. which is Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
Even now CNN, Reuters, Associated Press and other media do not use
'Macedonians' when writing about the people in the country. The people
are referred to as Slavs. Why is Slavs not used when speaking about
Russians, or Ukrainians, or Croatians, or Serbians, etc. Why, because
the Greeks aren't complaining about these nationalities. Here is a
little education for the media who use the word Slavs in place of
Macedonian. Slav is not a nationality, it is a language. This is true
for Latins such as Italians, Spaniards, Portuguese, French and
Romanians. They speak a Latin language, they cannot all be referred to
as Latinos. The majority of the people living in Macedonia are
Macedonians. They should be referred to as such. The Greeks only have a
bone to pick with the Macedonians and this is because the Macedonians
living in Aegean Macedonia are not treated well by the Greek government.
And so the Greeks want to hide this fact from the rest of the world.
But, it is not a secret, people all over the world know about the
atrocities the Greeks have done to the Macedonians.
Only in the Republic of Macedonia are minorities treated with respect.
The Albanians and other minorities living in Macedonia have their own
schools, media, and right to worship in their own language. The
Albanians and other minorities also have representatives in the
government.
Ilinden the Macedonian
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| | Author | Reply | Lelemaiko
(no login) | Excellent appeal Ilinden!No score for this post | June 23 2001, 11:21 AM |
The European criminals are responsible for all of the Macedonian suffering,past and present. I think we should appeal to higher authorities for help.
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