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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Concerned at the Situation of Roma in Macedonia Macedonian Government Urged to Take Concrete Steps to Improve the Situation of Roma Budapest, Kumanovo, 15 December 2006. The European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC) and the National Roma Centrum (NRC) today welcomed the Concluding Observations of the United Nations Committee on ...

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 ...