Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Greeks Claim Macedonians Do Not Exist!

In my research today, I found a YouTube video of over a thousand Macedonians protesting in Indianapolis urging U.S. support for independence of Macedonia. The protest was held in 1922!!

The video can be seen at http://youtube.com/watch?v=Sfyws7TizHk

Towards the end you will notice that someone even flew a plane with the headline 'Independence for Macedonia.'

The Greek government claims that Macedonians do not exist and were a creation of Yugoslavia's Tito. How could this be possible when Macedonian-Americans called upon the U.S. to support Macedonia's independence in 1922.

Furthermore in my research, I came across this posting on the website of the Washington, D.C.-United Macedonian Diaspora about how the New York Times captured the Macedonian freedom struggle in the early 1900s. You can read this at http://umdiaspora.org/content/view/328/1/ and click here for TIME magazine's article in 1925: http://umdiaspora.org/content/view/324/1/

Greece continuously denies the existence of Macedonia and the Macedonian people. One has to ask what is the reason behind this?

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