Australian Macedonian Human Rights Committee (AMHRC)

[AMHRC]

Thanks TM, Peshoshnitsa and Risto - just another reminder that the book can now be purchased directly from the AMHRC website, here: http://www.macedonianhr.org.au/wip/i...ccat&Itemid=50

[AMHRC]

MHR Review no.14 - just released

Macedonian Human Rights Review no.14

Just released and free to download, please click the link for a download option: http://www.macedonianhr.org.au/wip/i...=107&Itemid=99

Inside this issue:

* An Appeal to the European Parliament for Equitable Treatment – OMO/Vinozhito
* A Declaration in Protest – OMO
* To and from Brendan O’Connor MP – David Vitkov
* Macedonia’s New Defence Minister – Tom Vangelovski
* The Secrets of the Map – George Papadakis
* Who was Liberated in 1912? – Dr. Akis Gavrilidis
* Macedonian Place Names in Mala Prespa and Golo Brdo – MHRMI/AMHRC
* The Greek Anti-Macedonian Struggle Book Launch
* The Argument from Numismatics – Jim Thomev
* Kalesh Angja – Dr. Michael Seraphinoff
* Tito, Macedonians and their Language – Ivan Hristovski
* Muzikorama’s Australian Tour

[makedonche]

Another excellent review! Good work to all involved, keep it up!

[George S.]

as usual amhrc is on the ball they are on every issue at the top level.They seem to grasp & understand about what is happening.

[AMHRC]

Update on the Greek Anti-Macedonian Struggle

UPDATE ON THE GREEK ANTI-MACEDONIAN STRUGGLE BOOK

19 June 2013

The Australian-Macedonian Human Rights Committee (AMHRC) is pleased to announce a second print run of the English edition of Dimitris Lithoxou’s The Greek Anti-Macedonian Struggle, Part 1: From St. Ilija’s Day to Zagorichani (1903-1905), which was translated to English by Executive Members of the AMHRC.

The book was launched earlier this year by the AMHRC and has been so popular, that a second print run has become a necessity. We are also pleased to announce that the book has been accepted into the collections of many libraries including the National Library of Australia, the Library of Congress (USA), the State Library of Victoria, the University of New South Wales, the University of Sydney, La Trobe University, Deakin University and the University of Adelaide.

With the second print run, the AMHRC will be expanding the list of public and university libraries to which the book will be offered, including many of the leading universities in North America and the United Kingdom.

Copies of Salient Publishing’s English translation of the book can be purchased from the Australian Macedonian Human Rights Committee (AMHRC) via the following link:

http://www.macedonianhr.org.au/wip/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=111:amhrc-shop&catid=34:-amhrccat&Itemid=50

In The Greek Anti-Macedonian Struggle, Part 1: From St. Ilija’s Day to Zagorichani (1903-1905), Lithoxou uses primary Greek sources to reconstruct a number of important historical events. Here is an excerpt from an incident from 25 March 1905:

“The Greeks slaughtered, lit fires and plundered for about three hours. They only stopped after receiving information from the guards about the appearance of a small Ottoman police detachment from the neighbouring village of Kumanichovo [Kumanichevo]. Immediately after that, the heroic slaughterers of civilians rushed up into the mountains, taking 27 prisoners with them. They left behind them a village in flames with streets full of corpses.

I remember that when we passed through the streets of the village in order to escape, we saw 8-10 corpses on each of the streets and women and children were mourning them, said Iliyas Kapetanakis.

In the mountains, they savagely slaughtered the prisoners. Pavlos Patros took the initiative. Patros was holding both the knife and the bayonet. Then, he put the bayonet on the shotgun and started stabbing the prisoners who were lined up.

The massacre is described with the precision of diplomatic language, in a document from the Austrian Consulate in Bitola, dated 12.4.1905:

The Greek band razed the village to the ground on the morning of the seventh day of the current month [new calendar], after it attacked the village at dawn, simultaneously from all sides […]. When the inhabitants heard the bugles, they thought that an army detachment had arrived in the village and they even went out to greet them, but were immediately shot. The Greeks pulled out as many people as they could from the houses, including women and children and killed them in barbarous fashion. Those houses which they were unable to occupy, they blew into the air with dynamite or set on fire. Apart from that, 20 men were taken into the mountains where they were slaughtered. At the same time, they plundered and committed violence in search of money. The band conducted itself in this way for a whole three hours and there is no doubt that many more people would have been killed, if the Second Lieutenant of the police, Nezir-Effendi and 40 of his men, had not arrived from the neighbouring village of Komanichevo, after which the Greeks retreated into the mountains.

In order to reduce the level of horror which the massacre had provoked in Europe, Greek historiography claims that there was a Bulgarian detachment stationed in the village and that the Greeks attacked it. This is yet another lie…

A mass slaughter of innocent Macedonians and the plunder of their property, by Greek officers and their robber mercenaries. That is what happened in Zagorichani and in dozens of other Macedonian villages. That was the essence of the anti-Macedonian struggle, which Greek historians, in performing their regular duty, present as a struggle for the liberation of Macedonia.”

Quoted from Dimitris Lithoxou, The Greek Anti-Macedonian Struggle, Part 1: From St. Ilija’s Day to Zagorichani (1903-1905), pp. 137-144).

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Established in 1984, the Australian Macedonian Human Rights Committee (AMHRC) is a non-governmental organisation that informs and advocates before international institutions, governments and broader communities about combating racism and promoting human rights. Our aspiration is to ensure that Macedonian communities and other excluded groups throughout the world, are recognised, respected and afforded equitable treatment. For more information please visit www.macedonianhr.org.au, email [email protected] or via +61 3 9329 8960.

[AMHRC]

MHR Review no.15 - just released

Macedonian Human Rights Review no.15

Please click the link for free a download option: http://www.macedonianhr.org.au/wip/i...=107&Itemid=99

Contents

* Reeker Reeks and Racism in the US State Department Report – George Vlahov
* AMHRC, MHRMI and Vinozhito Condemn US State Department Report
* Letter to The Age – Dr. Chris Popov
* How does it Feel? – Jim Thomev
* The Poetry of Gane Todorovski – Dr. Michael Seraphinoff
* We want to Learn our Mother Tongue: Macedonian – Pando Ashlakov
* MHRMI and AMHRC Call on Nimitz to Resign
* Irreparable, Pathetic and Ridiculous – George N. Papadakis
* Euro MP or Anti-Macedonian Lobbyist? – Dr. Chris Popov
* NLA War Crimes – Tom Vangelovski
* The Annual Sandanski Memorial – Stojko Stojkov
* Congratulations to Nova Zora on its Third Anniversary
* Nova Zora Celebrates Three Years – Dimitri Jovanov
* Johnny Tsiglev’s Multi-Media Art Exhibition
* An International Scholarly Conference on the Partition of Macedonia

[makedonche]

Another outstanding review, well done to all! The momentum for critical Macedonian thinking and in-depth reviewing is progressing at momentous speed, with many well written articles and reviews, to mention just a few I found enlightening -the articles on Reeker, the US State Department, Nimitz and particularly the NLA war crimes article by Tom Vangelovski!
Onward and Upward......anybody reading this who is not a member of AMHRC/MHRMI....shame on you, don't just sit there reading and agreeing, get involved or at least donate to the best organisation in the world involving Macedonian Human Rights and issues!

[Vangelovski]

and particularly the NLA war crimes article by Tom Vangelovski!

Thanks mate

[Phoenix]

Another fantastic effort by the team behind the Macedonian Human Rights Review, congratulations on a job very well done by everyone involved.
It seems that the bar is continually raised with the release of successive Reviews.
This is an organization without peer in any Macedonian community anywhere on the planet.

The issues important to Macedonia and the Macedonian people are always at the forefront and covered with a respect, dignity and directness seldom articulated by others.

[makedonche]

Thanks mate

Vangelovski
Great article, well written, gets to the core of some critical issues!

[AMHRC]

Another outstanding review, well done to all! The momentum for critical Macedonian thinking and in-depth reviewing is progressing at momentous speed, with many well written articles and reviews, to mention just a few I found enlightening -the articles on Reeker, the US State Department, Nimitz and particularly the NLA war crimes article by Tom Vangelovski!
Onward and Upward......anybody reading this who is not a member of AMHRC/MHRMI....shame on you, don't just sit there reading and agreeing, get involved or at least donate to the best organisation in the world involving Macedonian Human Rights and issues!

Another fantastic effort by the team behind the Macedonian Human Rights Review, congratulations on a job very well done by everyone involved.
It seems that the bar is continually raised with the release of successive Reviews.
This is an organization without peer in any Macedonian community anywhere on the planet.

The issues important to Macedonia and the Macedonian people are always at the forefront and covered with a respect, dignity and directness seldom articulated by others.

сполај ти на македонче и финикс....

[George S.]

Do people know all those things the greeks are calling us skopijans,slavs,bulgarians to negate our e3xistence,hence the greeks can call themselves macedonians as we don't exist according to themIt's all called propaganda & a smear campaign.Do not forget you are all macedonians & nothing else don't settle for anything else.As part of their propaganda machine the greeks have been on a literary crusade to rewrite history,books etc ,to tell the history with a greek slant.They paid history professrs millions.& journalists. & even offered macedonian journalists money to write that everey thing is greek.Don't underestimate the greek propaganda side side.
with Macedonian Human Rights organizations a light is shining the truth, thank goodness for that.

[Risto the Great]

the EU, which, in these circumstances, might deservedly be perceived as having been constructed upon a foundation made of excrement.

Such an articulate way of employing "excrement" in an interesting article.

A great read, as always.

[George S.]

RtG the excrement is the building block of lies ,deceit and BS that is their foundation.You know what happens on blocks built with excrement.Even though they invite macedonia to the eu or nato i'm sure even if we change our name which we shouldn't they don't want a country like macedonia..We as macedonians have been condemned a long time ago.We simply trying to achieve the impossible.Look at the croats i'm sure they regretted a long time before entering the eu,of what it really means to themNot simply losing sovereignity but a host of other things.

[AMHRC]

Such an articulate way of employing "excrement" in an interesting article.

A great read, as always.

не во секој случај, ама така, одвреме навреме, не е лошо да се користи таков збор.....