http://www.hrw.org/campaigns/macedonia/ Police Abuse Against Albanians Continues in Macedonia “Persistent police abuse in Macedonia is simply shocking. Macedonia must urgently address the violence in its police stations. Ethnic Albanians are being severely abused, and in some cases beaten to death, without the slightest prospect of accountability. ” http://hrw.org/english/docs/2001/08/22/macedo1477.htm Macedonian Troops Commit Grave Abuses “The Macedonian government must answer to the people […]

16 June 2006, Budapest, Skopje. The European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC) and  the National Roma Centrum (NRC) sent a letter to Dr. Vlado Buckovski, Prime Minister of the Republic of Macedonia expressing grave concern about the recent death of a Romani youth named Trajan Bekirov, and urging that Macedonian authorities to carry out a prompt, thorough and effective investigation. Copies […]

2007 has got off to a bad start for ethnic minorities in the FYR Macedonia where the hostilities towards those who identify themselves as Bulgarians inside the country has boiled over once again. Given historical sensitivities (in recent years there was a law in FYR Macedonia “to protect the honour of the Macedonian language” were it was a crime to […]

By GARENTINA KRAJA of the Miami Herald Residents of this close-knit, predominantly ethnic Albanian community still remember the day when they say police stormed their village tucked between green fields and snow-covered mountains, killing seven men. On Monday, FYR Macedonia’s former interior minister and a senior police official go before the U.N. war crimes tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands, on […]

FYR Macedonia’s interior minister watched as police entered a village and killed seven ethnic Albanian men in 2001, UN prosecutors have said.  ‘Criminally responsible’ Mr Boskovski, 46, was alleged to have effective command and control over the forces from his position as interior minister. “Due to his failure to take necessary and reasonable measures to punish the perpetrators of the […]

http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=907 Chief government religious affairs official Zvonko Mucunski has refused to provide religious communities with the latest text of the new draft religion law, religious minorities have complained to Forum 18 News Service. The big sticking point in the draft law due to go to public discussion as early as March is whether more than one denomination of any one […]

The Bureau for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor published the annual report on the situation with the respect of religious freedom in the FYR Macedonia in the course of 2006. There is an impression that the greater art of the report has been dedicated to the denial of religious freedom to the citizens, members of the Orthodox Ohrid Archbishopric. http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/irf/2006/71394.htm […]

Maintaining the religious freedom is a fundamental right, and at the same time, a condition for the FYR Macedonia in order to fulfill the criteria to join the Euro-Atlantic civilization currents. Unfortunately, the Republic is continually violating the elementary religious freedoms of its own citizens and tax payers. In its last year report, the European Commission presented its attitude that […]