/ world in the present day information/ For many years, folks with a Bulgarian self-awareness in Vardar Macedonia have been the item of persecution and repression – first from Yugoslavia, and these days additionally from the fashionable Republic of North Macedonia. Regardless of Skopje’s need for membership within the European Union, the nation continues to be nowhere close to the human rights and rule of regulation requirements anticipated of a candidate member. The clearest proof is the continued brutal repression in opposition to Bulgarian residents and other people with a Bulgarian identification in North Macedonia.
It’s the conduct of the North Macedonian authorities, who haven’t modified the Yugoslav strategies of motion, triggered the cultural membership “Ivan Mihailov” within the metropolis of Bitola to deal with the Prime Minister of Bulgaria Boyko Borisov/the letter to B. Borisov HERE/: , as probably the one one that can save them and intervene of their protection in opposition to repression and terror. They need essentially the most fundamental human proper from the membership, particularly that individuals who have registered as ethnic Bulgarians within the censuses, to acquire Bulgarian citizenship extra simply and shortly (which might signify a sure barrier in opposition to repression). It’s hardly stunning that the regime of Boyko Borissov neither commented nor was moved by the Macedonian Bulgarians’ letter. Or get scared!?
In the mean time, GERB and VMRO-BND clearly have extra precedence duties than the safety of individuals with a Bulgarian identification in Macedonia, who most usually fall sufferer to each the harassment of the Macedonian authorities and the indifference of the Bulgarian authorities. There have been a number of high-profile instances over time, however that is really a common pattern.
The reality is that for nearly eight a long time, no Bulgarian politician has dared to boost the problem of the rights of the Macedonian Bulgarians and their safety from the repression and terror to which they’re subjected to today (terror expressed by police coaching, assaults, failed careers and expulsions from jobs and universities and different issues).
Till in the present day, when Rumen Radev lastly proved that Bulgaria can produce nationally accountable politicians.
After Boyko Borisov, who in any other case brags rather a lot about his authorities’s diplomacy and retains speaking concerning the “Western Balkans”, did nothing to guard the Bulgarians, the pinnacle of state, Rumen Radev, was the primary to behave.
The President of the Republic of Bulgaria convened a gathering of the administrators of the Bulgarian safety providers to undertake: “Well timed measures for enough safety of the rights of Bulgarian residents overseas, when they’re the item of assaults simply due to their nationwide self-awareness.”
That is an unprecedented act on the a part of a Bulgarian politician – nobody, not even Todor Zhivkov, who condemns the anti-Bulgarian rhetoric in Skopje and spoke to Tito personally about it, has taken such actions.
The response of the Macedonian media can be indicative. “Sloboden Pechat”, “24 Data”, “Nezavisen”, “Sitel” TV, “Infomax”, Macedonian “Nova” instantly jumped in opposition to the Bulgarian president.
The appeals of the President of Bulgaria have been additionally reported and commented on by “Plus Data”, “Focus”, “Faktor”, “Netpress”, “I need to say” and different Macedonian media.
The Macedonian version of Deutsche Welle, for instance, writes that “a letter from Bitola lifted Bulgaria to its toes.”
After all, the media servants of the Bulgarian-phobic VMRO-DPMNE instantly turned notably violent. The author and columnist Sasho Tasevski from “Republika”, which is near VMRO-DPMNE, writes: “Do we have now a president who can reply to Radev’s provocations?”
In response to the Macedonian, the actions of Rumen Radev are “an order for aggression from a neighboring nation”. He believes that that is “unprecedented in Europe”. And he’s actually proper – at the least for Bulgaria, that is an unprecedented transfer to guard our nationwide pursuits.
For the primary time in so a few years, Bulgaria has a head of state who did what each patriotic Bulgarian anticipated from our nation for many years. Rumen Radev clearly confirmed the Macedonians and Bulgarophobes that the times have handed after they can kill, repress and terrorize individuals who have the braveness to name themselves “Bulgarians” with impunity.
Certainly, Radev’s act is unprecedented, as a result of nobody can bear in mind the final time when a Bulgarian politician or official put the Bulgarian nationwide curiosity earlier than the European, NATO, Brussels, Turkish, American, French, English, German or anybody else first.
The actions of President Rumen Radev additionally ship an necessary geopolitical sign – Bulgaria has not disappeared as a political and state entity.
Alternatively, the actions or extra exactly the inaction of Boyko Borisov, Ekaterina Zaharieva and people in energy present that we have now a big a part of the political elite that may be activated solely with regards to defending the pursuits of different international locations, unions and elements. So long as nobody ordered them, these individuals clearly can’t and don’t need to defend the life, honor and rights of the Macedonian Bulgarians.
Let’s hope that the Bulgarian authorities will overcome its short-sightedness, in addition to its aggressive dislike for the president of the republic, and can present solidarity with Radev’s actions. It will present that, in any case, our political class has maybe begun to mature and is succesful, at the least on such necessary points, of consolidating within the identify of our nationwide curiosity.
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