Syndicate: Fw: Protest to BBC News

[Melentie Pandilovski <mpandil@soros.org.mk>]

Forwarded by Melentie Pandilovski <mpandil@soros.org.mk>
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 From:    "Darko  Angelov" <Darko.Angelov@ucu.uu.nl>

Dear Sir/Madame,

In respect to the BBC's coverage of events on the Macedonia - Kosovo
border, I am writing the following protest:

- The continuing misrepresentation on the events in Macedonia by the BBC is
giving significant support to the Albanian extremists' terrorist attacks on
Macedonia.

- The frequently repeated BBC report in which an Albanian woman living in
the border area with Kosovo is quoted as saying, "the Macedonians are even
worse than the Serbs" is an example of propagandist and populist
quasi-journalism in which the stability and future of one whole nation
(Macedonia) is put at risk.

-The BBC is constantly (intentionally!?) failing to give a complete, fair
picture of events in Macedonia, and especially on the issue of the extent
of human rights already given to the Albanian population in Macedonia.
The BBC has not bothered a single time to mention the already enormous
amount of human/minority rights given to the Albanians in Macedonia. 
- During the last 10 years of Macedonian independence it has become an
inevitable practice that every government will have a coalition with the
Albanian minority political parties. In the current coalition government,
the political party of the Macedonian Albanians holds four key minister
seats and several deputy positions. There are 28 Albanian MPs in the 120
seat Macedonian Parliament.
Minority rights are extended to the maximum where education is concerned.
The Albanian minority in the country has education in its mother tongue up
to and including University level (a brand new Albanian language University
is under-construction at the moment). Many TV and radio stations in
Macedonia broadcast full programming in Albanian. Macedonia had Albanian
language TV programs much before even Albania had a TV station. There are
numerous Albanian daily newspapers, magazines, and literature printed in
Macedonia.
Albanians in Macedonia hold high-ranking executive positions in public
enterprises, army, police, local government etc. The Macedonian Army and
Police have Albanian Generals and other high-ranking officers.
In the Municipalities where Albanians are more than 20% of the population
the Albanian language is an official language of communication. This is
just a small fragment of the enormous amount of rights given to the
Albanians in Macedonia. Rights given to Albanians in Macedonia have been
uplifted to a level much higher than what European conventions and
juridical practice in EU countries prescribe. While there was war in
Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo due to basic minority rights violations,
Macedonian minority rights democracy was flourishing.

Dear staff of the BBC, is this what makes the Macedonians ?orse than the
Serbs?!! Were Macedonians really "worse than Serbs" when they were the
only ones who welcomed 400.000 Albanian refugees from Kosovo into Macedonia
during the NATO bombardment of Yugoslavia!?? Macedonia's stability in 1999
was sacrificed in the name of humanity and the readiness to accept 400.000
Albanian Kosovar refugees in the country while none of the NATO countries
was willing to take no more than few hundreds of refugees.
Is this the way you are saying THANK YOU for the political, strategic and
logistic help which Macedonia gave to NATO during the Kosovo crisis!?

Furthermore, your portrayal of ethnic Macedonians as "slavs", and not
Macedonians, is insulting. When you write about Poles, Czechs, Serbs,
Russians, Croatians, etc., BBC does not cerainly label them as "slavs".

This letter appeals to your sense of responsibility, fairness and logic
reasoning to prevail in the BBC reporter's coverage on the events in
Macedonia. Macedonia and its 10 years of successful democratic practice are
endangered by the radical, unreasonable, barbaric acts of Albanian
guerillas. Macedonia is the last country in Europe that deserves this type
of irresponsible treatment by BBC!
STOP the quasi-reporting from Macedonia! Give Macedonia fair treatment!

Sincerely Yours,

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Melentie Pandilovski
Director
Contemporary Arts Center  - Skopje
Orce Nikolov 109, 1000 Skopje
Republic of Macedonia
Tel/Fax: +389.2.133.541
Tel/Fax: +389.2.214.495
Mobile: +389.70.217.075
http://www.scca.org.mk
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Melentie Pandilovski
Director
Contemporary Arts Center  - Skopje
Orce Nikolov 109, 1000 Skopje
Republic of Macedonia
Tel/Fax: +389.2.133.541
Tel/Fax: +389.2.214.495
Mobile: +389.70.217.075
http://www.scca.org.mk
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