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USA: Greece denies Macedonian minority
Greece continues to deny the existence of Macedonian minority on its territory, and continues to put pressure on it, the American State Department says in its report on the condition of the human rights in 190 countries in 2007
The State Department stresses that the people who identify themselves as ethnic Macedonians are victims of the enforcement of the law which allows taking out the citizenship of those people who work against state interests and for benefit of other countries. This law-given power the Government in Athens uses exclusively in the cases when a person identifies himself as ethnic Macedonian, and the total number of these people has never gone public.
The report also says that in Greece, the citizens who identify themselves as: Macedonians, Turks, Pomacs (Slav Muslim), Vlach, Roma and Arvanics (Albanian speaking population) are facing difficulties to publicly express their ethnic belonging and to practice their tradition and culture. The State Department says that the Greek authorities do not recognize the existence of a Slav dialect which is used by the population in the Northwestern part of the country, as Macedonian language.
"The biggest part of this population considers itself as native, and a smaller part of them insist on the use of the term 'Macedonians', which generates resistance and antagonism in the ethnic Greeks. This population claims that the Greek authorities for years have run a politics which aims at discouraging the use of their language" - stresses the State Department report.
For Republic of Macedonia, the same report claims the human rights are respected according to common international laws, with the exception of several incidents of police using excessive force, as reported by some citizens, and the existence of human trafficking as the second issue.
Link: USA: Greece denies Macedonian minority ("Dnevnik" newspaper, in Macedonian language).