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• Thursday, June 19, 2008 06:47 PM

  Barack Obama Supports Greek Racism Against Its Ethnic Macedonian Minority - Rumor or Truth?

  Barack Obama has adopted the Greek position on the Macedonian Greek dispute. - Rumor or Truth?

  The Greek position is that the 50,000 strong "slavophone" minority is bilingual, speaking a patois/idiom/ which is not a "real" language. Slavophones, according to Greece, have no language, no culture (sounds like you know what)and no separate ethnic identity from the Greek majority. - Rumor or Truth?

  Members of the ethnic Macedonian political party Rainbow/ Vinozhito/European Free Alliance have been harassed, beaten and prosecuted for demanding human minority rights. - Rumor or Truth?

  Greece's treatment of its ethnic Macedonian minority, like the Turkish treatment of its ethnic Kurdish minority, is the inspiration for every racist, every fascist and every ethnic cleanser in the Balkans. - Rumor or Truth?

  Obama supports a Senate Resolution condemning the Macedonian government for its call for basic human rights for ethnic Macedonians in Greece as "hostile propaganda." - Rumor or Truth?

  Colin Powell was instrumental in the US recognition of the Republic Of Macedonia by its constitutional name, instead of FYROM imposed on Macedonia by a Greek blockade during the Clinton administration. - Rumor or Truth?

  Even though they covered the Balkans during the wars of the nineties, the following journalists have totally ignored the plight of ethnic Macedonians of Greece:

  Robert D. Kaplan, Samantha Power, Christopher Hitchens, Heather Hurlburt, Anne Applebaum, Edward Lucas, Timothy Garton Ash, Michael Ignatieff, International War and Peace Reporting (IWPR), International Crisis Group (ICG), Radio Free Europe, - Rumor or Truth?

  Those organisations that reported on the plight of ethnic Macedonians in Greece:

  Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch (Denying Ethnicity: The Macedonians of Greece),US State Department(what dah!)Report on Human Rights - Rumor or Truth?

  Barack Obama Supports Greek Racism Against Its Ethnic Macedonian Minority - Rumor or Truth?

  —David Edenden Read David Edenden's other letters
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