MHR Review | Issue #30 | July 2018

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In this edition of the MHR Review:

Edited by George Vlahov and designed by Ljubica Durlovska

• AMHRC Statement on the Name Agreement
• Проглас II Апел до Македонската Јавност
• About the Name Agreement - George Vlahov
• Nationalist Mobilisation in Greece - Dr. Dimitar Vamvakovski
• EFA Declaration on Macedonian Minorities
• Macedonia's Amnesty Laws - Dr. Vasko Nastevski
• The MPL & Pirinsky - Victor Sinadinoski
• A Life in the Wild Blue Yonder - Dr. Michael Seraphinoff
• Interview with DJ Mike Steva - John Tsiglev
• Victorian Government Grant for Macedonian Cultural Centre - MOCMV

Download the MHR Review - Issue #30 - July 2018 edition here (PDF – 5.3MB)

AMHRC statement on proposed name change

Melbourne, 20/06/2018

The Australian Macedonian Human Rights Committee (AMHRC) unequivocally rejects the proposed arrangement to change the name of the Republic of Macedonia, signed in Prespa last Sunday.

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New Paperback Edition of 'On Macedonian Matters' now available to purchase

A new and more affordable paperback edition of the book On Macedonian Matters from the AMHRC Conference on the partition of Macedonia in 2013 has been published and is now available for purchase from Amazon.

Edited by Victor Friedman and Jim Hlavac, it can be purchased directly from Amazon here.

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AMHRC Condemns Unconstitutional Language Law in Macedonia

Melbourne 15/3/2018

Today, the SDSM-DUI coalition governing Macedonia, passed a law converting Albanian into an official language of state in the Republic of Macedonia. The law was passed in defiance of correct parliamentary procedure and the constitution of the Republic of Macedonia. The law represents an implementation of the foreign policy goals of neighbouring Albania. It will lead to excessively onerous administrative and financial difficulties for an already dysfunctional state.

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MHR Review | Issue #29 | March 2018

Download the MHR Review - Issue #29 – March 2018 edition here  (PDF – 3.9MB)

In this edition of the MHR Review:

Edited by George Vlahov and designed by John Tsiglev

• Public Intellectuals in Macedonia - George Vlahov
• The Zaev Briefing - David Vitkov
• Self-Delusion - Dr. Tom Vangelovski
• Проглас
• Before the Rain - Dr. Michael Seraphinoff
• EFA in Pirin
• A Different View from Sofia
• Greek Propaganda in Ottoman Macedonia - Dr. Dimitar Vamvakovski
• The Macedonian Question - Victor Sinadinoski

Download the MHR Review - Issue #29 – March 2018 edition here (PDF – 3.9MB)

Public Intellectuals in Macedonia and the Names

The following article will appear in the upcoming edition of the Macedonian Human Rights Review, issue no. 29, due to be released in the coming weeks...

Preamble

Located among the heights of conceit, one finds commentators of all kinds, though especially noticeable are certain academics and journalists, who present their interpretations, their prejudices, as facts; moreover, within some of them, actually, probably many of them, the desire to appear to be relevant to their milieu, which, understandably is the dream of many an intellectual, leads to an advocacy for policies that contradict not only their ideological persona, but even rudimentary standards of decency. Their expressions of knowledge are also, of course, warped by power, though they manage to perform as if the opposite is true; or to behave as if their knowledge of power is so intimate, that it permits them to insist that their perspective is an actuality which necessitates ignoring a fundamental injustice. In these cases, one is pardonably apprehensive about offering a rejoinder, as such attention is precisely what is craved. The likelihood is that direct engagement will merely lead to the further inflation of an ego that proffered personal preferences, as truth.

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