100 years partitioning. Day to be mourned

[julie]

http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n312540

Skopje. A group of Macedonian intellectuals, members of the Macedonian Manifest non-government organisation, symbolically set the Treaty of Bucharest (1913) on fire at the square in downtown Skopje, FOCUS News Agency correspondent reported. The move comes to mark the 100th anniversary since document’s signing.
There are more than 50 intellectuals that are members of the organisation – artists and cultural figures, such as journalist and poet Georgi Barbarovski, literary critic and writer Efrem Kletnikov, composer and conductor Zapro Zaprov, as well as Stefan Flahov-Micov, who is popular for his attempts to impose Macedonian theses in Bulgaria.
At the improvised press conference in Skopje the group placed posters with slogans, such as “We do not give away the name Macedonia”, as one of the posters was signed by Macedonian from Pirin Macedonia. Another poster read, as follows: “The name is our fatherland and we cannot live without it”.
The Macedonian Manifest protests against the Treaty of Bucharest, which they say had divided their motherland, which was unable to reunite again, even after the WWII. According to the group, several politicians from neighbouring countries continue playing the card of the Treaty of Bucharest and were undermining the originality of the Macedonian nation.
Media in Macedonia comment that the group received support from the Macedonians from Pirin Macedonia, which arrived this morning from Bulgaria.

[Momce Makedonce]

Good on them

http://republika.mk/?p=107385

[julie]

http://maxim.mk/smk-so-rezolucija-za-genocidot-na-makedoncite-koj-trae-do-den-denes

[julie]

http://www.mkd.mk/makedonija/politika/bukureshkiot-dogovor-povekje-ne-vazhi#1

[julie]

World Macedonian Congress, Todor Petrov, declaring the Interim Accord Null and Void and marching with the 16 ray Macedonian sun......

[julie]

http://www.telegraf.mk/aktuelno/makedonija/24034-smk-bukureskiot-mir-poveke-ne-vazi

[julie]

http://turlitava.com/smk-bukureshkiot-dogovor-povek-e-ne-vazhi/

[Soldier of Macedon]

A symbolic gesture to mark a disgraceful day for Europe and terrible moment in Macedonian history.

[Risto the Great]

Kind of sad that "intellectuals" can grasp the magnitude of such a tragedy and the "less intellectuals" can't get themselves out of their favourite kafana.

[George S.]

a stark contrast to other nations who were slaves & freed themselves & people in revolutions. One would expect macedonia to free itself from the yoke of slavery.How long will it take to do it.Whenever you are ready is the answer.?we are all letting ourselves down where is our just cause & our will to live.Perhaps we are more concerned with the day to day ramifications being preoocupied with cups of coffee swilling at the local kafana.Leave it in the too hard basket for someone else to worry.Who will accept the cudgel of the macedonian people & fight the good fight of freedom.Alas there are no more heoroes left to cause a revolution of the mind or is there?Everyone has a part to play not just t heheros.Your self identification & declaration is the most important declaration that you exist only as a macedonian.

[julie]

To The European Council and Mr. Herman Van Rompuy, President of the European Council, Euro-commissioners and Mr. José Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission, Ms. Baroness Catherine Ashton, High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy of the European Union, Euro-MPs and Mr. Martin Schulz, President of the European Parliament, Council of the European Union, T.E. Sovereigns, Presidents, Parliaments and Governments of the EU member states,

Occasion: 100 years of the Balkan Wars of 1912-1913 and the Bucharest Treaty of August 10th, 1913

Subject: Request for an apology and reparations for occupation of Macedonia and genocide against the Macedonian people from the Balkan Wars 1912-1913 and an unconditional recognition of the state name of Macedonia, the Macedonian people and the Macedonian language

Your Excellences,

We, the Macedonians worldwide, ask for an apology and reparations regarding of occupation of Macedonia and the genocide against the Macedonian people during The two Balkan Wars 1912-1913, and an unconditional recognition of the state name Macedonia, the Macedonian people and the Macedonian language, without Latin transcription into the Macedonian language (“Republika Makedonija”).

The Macedonians from all parts of Macedonia and the world this 2013 commemorate 100 years of occupation of Macedonia in 1913 by Greece, Bulgaria and Serbia and 100 years of genocide against the Macedonian people which lasts until today.

August 10th, 2013, marks 100 years of the end of the two Balkan wars 1912-1913 which ended with singing “Bucharest Treaty” of August 10th, 1913. In the First Balkan war in 1912, Serbia, Montenegro, Bulgaria and Greece fought against the Ottoman Empire allegedly to "liberate" Macedonia and the Macedonian people. In the Second Balkan War in 1913, these countries fought each and partitioned and occupied Macedonia. Greece occupied 34,356 square kilometers of Macedonia, Serbia 25,342 square kilometers (today Republic of Macedonia), Bulgaria 6,798 square kilometers while the newly founded state of Albania received 1,115 square kilometers. In 1919, Greece deported thousands of Orthodox Christian Macedonians to Bulgaria, and in 1923 Greece deported thousands of Muslim Macedonians to Turkey. In their homes and on their properties, Greece resettled Orthodox Christians Turks from “Asia Minor” with a purpose of changing the ethnic structure of the population of the occupied part of Macedonia.

In the past 100 years, Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia committed genocide, ethnic cleansing, horrific murders and rapes, deportations and resettlements, forms of crimes against humanity, with regards to native Macedonians. The three countries changed the Macedonian’s names and surnames, banned the Macedonian language, changed the millennia-old Macedonian names of toponyms, oronyms and hidronyms in the occupied territories of Macedonia, and demolished the Macedonian churches and historical heritage. The new border near Bogorodica and Evzoni (whose original Macedonian name is Machukovo) was closed to Macedonians to cross. Those Macedonian forced away were forbidden to visit their homes apartheid style: forbidden by Greek authorities to enter and by Greek courts to restore citizenship or rights to property and inheritance, unless they are "Greeks by genus". Because of the magnitude of the persecution, millions of Macedonians who were not killed in the brutal racist were forced to emigrate across the world.

100 years since the “Bucharest Treaty”: Serbia does not recognize the Macedonian Orthodox Church; Bulgaria does not recognize the Macedonian nation and the Macedonian language; while Greece demands the Republic of Macedonia change its historic name enshrined in the country's constitution, in an effort to make up what physical extermination did not fully accomplish and does not recognize neither the Macedonian people, the Macedonian language and the Macedonian Orthodox Church, all together! Albania does recognize the rights of Macedonians in nine villages in the Mala Prespa region, near the border with the Republic of Macedonia, but nowhere else, even though Macedonians live throughout Albania. For Athens, the Macedonians are Greeks; for Belgrade, the Macedonians are Serbs; for Sofia, the Macedonians are Bulgarians; for Tirana, the Macedonians are Albanians even though the Greeks, the Serbs, the Bulgarians and the Albanians, as contemporary political nations, basically are ethnic Macedonians.

100 years since the Balkan Wars, the Macedonians worldwide demand: (1) Rights and Freedoms, (2) apology and reparations for the suffered occupation and genocide, (3) restitution of the cultural and historical heritage of Macedonia, (4) restoration of the citizenship, civic, property and hereditary rights of the forcefully expelled Macedonians and their descendants from the Balkan Wars of 1912-1913 and the Greek Civil War of 1946-1949, and (5) an immediate and unconditional end to the talks regarding the difference about the state name of Macedonia with its southern neighbor Hellenic Republic, and the continuation of the membership in the United Nations and in all international organizations under the state name of Macedonia (in English "The Republic of Macedonia"), as a distinct difference from the same northern-Greek and south-western-Bulgarian province of Macedonia. We, Macedonians, declare that the culture and history of Macedonia are not exclusive, but are a part of the cultural and historical identity of all Balkan states as contemporary political nations which had been parts of the same empires in these spaces.

We proclaim the inalienable and inviolable right of self-identification and self-determination of the Macedonian people and right of unification of Macedonia by peaceful means in accordance with the international law.

We support the advancement of the bilateral relationship with member states of the European Union and NATO Alliance, but categorically reject the admission of the state of Macedonia into the NATO Alliance and the European Union, if the antimacedonism of the Hellenic Republic, the Greek genocide against the Macedonian people and the natzi-faschist demands of the Hellenic Republic regarding of the change of the name of the state of Macedonia are values of solidarity between Brussels and Strasbourg with Athens.

The First and the Second Balkan War, the First and the Second World War and the Greek Civil War left a lot of bloodshed and death, tears and graves in Macedonia. We want to remind the world of the horrors and atrocities of these wars and to send a strong message for peace and love among nations and peoples. Despite all the historical past, we offer a historic Macedonian-Greek reconciliation and an Agreement for a lasting peace and good neighborly existence between Macedonia and Greece.

We forgive, but we never forget! What was been may not be repeated! No more wars and hatreds among the peoples and the nations in the whole world.

Sincerely,

No. 0146/2013
August 10th, 2013
Macedonia

President of the World Macedonian Congress, Mr. Todor Petrov

Vice-President of the World Macedonian Congress and Chief of the World Macedonian Congress UN Mission in New York, Mr. Nestor Oginar

Secretary General of the World Macedonian Congress, Mr. Niche Dimovski

President of the House of Immigrants of Macedonia, Mr. Ivan Dzo Petreski

President of the League of Macedonians from Aegean MACEDON, Mr. Tashko Jovanov

President of the League of Macedonians with Muslim faith, Mr. Ismail Bojda

President of the World Macedonian Youth Congress, Mr. Antonio Dimovski

[julie]

http://falanga.com.au/miroven-protest-po-povod-100-godini-bukureshki-dogovor-vo-melburn

[julie]

http://www.mkd.mk/makedonija/politika/na-ploshtadot-makedonija-zapalen-e-bukureshkiot-dogovor-fotovideo#1

group of MAcedonians from Pirin Macedonia in Skopje burning the Treaty of Bucharest

I have watched the news and mediums with interest the last couple of days and aside from the World Macedonian Congress, within Macedonia is there NO ONE within the Republic of Macedonia that gives a shit ?????!!!!!

How can a RULING government Prime Minister and President NOT acknowledge the day????
The apathy from within the Republic is absolutely deplorable, how HARD was it to go to each major town square and GATHER as a group????

The next person from within the Republic that asks me what I have done for Macedonia whilst they sit within their little kafana lamenting their pathetic existence I will personally rip to shreds - is anyone else frustrated????

How incredibly sad are the people within Macedonia, that such a small number of people actually even care about the erosion of their own homeland - you get a group travelling from Pirinska Makedonija at risk of retribution from returning home, and you get citizends of Macedonia not even bothering to commemorate such a sad day for the history of our people!

It is upsetting to say the least, it is NOT up to the diaspora to arrange your sorry asses and get them into gear, I find it so disheartening, that there is such a small minority of Macedonians left within Macedonia that actually truly care what is to become of the country

As for the prime minister and president how disgusting - NOTHING from them , absolutely NOTHING - in Australia when we commemorate such momentous occasions at leasat all of our pathetic political parties gather together to commemorate - YOU divide YOURSELVES and are your own worst enemies

Deplorable. Utterly.

[julie]

and the response from a RoMacedonian to the demonstrations in Melbourne...............Dimitar Kostovski pufki prodavat abe ako se mazi neka dojdat tuka da ziveat MAKEDONEC E TOJ STO SEDI VO DRZAVATA MAKEDONIJA........................................ ...........

Pathetic imbecile

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=595828783794418&set=a.480653065311991.106852.480648481979116&type=1&theater

[George S.]

Julie has pointed out that our worst enemy is ourselves.You look at the diaspora putting on some march does therom govt give a shit not really.We have allready lost the battle & the war here lies the problem the rom government is the problem.Does the rom govt know how the greek govt operates with it's protests & lobbying.HEre is where the rom govt could learn.THere should have been worldwide protests right around organised & supported by the rom govt.What they all fell asleep at the wheel.THey lost the chance & blew it.