Η τουρκική και ευρωπαϊκή ολοκλήρωση

Σ.Γ.

Έσβησαν" από τό βιβλίο τής Ιστορίας τό "Ολοκαύτωμα" τής Ναούσης!!!!

The information below deserves to be announced as an ACTION ALLERT.  It must be translated into English so that it reaches ALL of us.

And then, we must ALL alert ALL of our associates with the news of this criminal act. What will be next, will they be eliminating the word Holocaust from my book???  A Holocaust is a Holocaust, a Genocide is a Genocide.

With hope in my heart,
Sofia Kontogeorge Kostos
Forthcoming book, BEFORE THE SILENCE: Archival News Reports of the Christian Holocaust That Begs to be Remembered

«Παρόν», 03.05.2009

Αρνητικές προοπτικές για ΠΓΔΜ

Standard & Poor's: Αρνητικές προοπτικές για ΠΓΔΜ

Η ΝΑΥΤΕΜΠΟΡΙΚΗ Δευτέρα, 4 Μαϊου 2009 07:00

Στην υποβάθμιση της αξιολόγησής της για το μακροπρόθεσμο χρέος της ΠΓΔΜ σε ξένο και τοπικό νόμισμα προχώρησε η Standard & Poor's, επικαλούμενη έντονες ανησυχίες για τη συνεχώς επιδεινούμενη ικανότητα της χώρας να δανειστεί σε ξένο νόμισμα.

Ο οίκος αξιολόγησης τόνισε ότι οι προοπτικές είναι αρνητικές και δεν απέκλεισε το ενδεχόμενο να προχωρήσει και σε νέα υποβάθμιση μελλοντικά. «Το μεγάλο έλλειμμα ισοζυγίου τρεχουσών συναλλαγών και η μειωμένη διαθεσιμότητα εξωτερικών κεφαλαίων, απειλούν να μειώσουν σημαντικά τα επίπεδα των διεθνών αποθεματικών στοιχείων ενεργητικού.

Αυτό μπορεί να οδηγήσει στην υπονόμευση της σταθερότητας της μακροχρόνιας ισοτιμίας με το ευρώ [EUR=X] Σχετικά άρθρα της ΠΓΔΜ, αν η χώρα δεν εξασφαλίσει την κατάλληλη χρηματοδότηση για να καλύψει το κενό που υπάρχει στον εξωτερικό δανεισμό», ανέφερε η Standard & Poor's.

Standard & Poor's: Αρνητικές προοπτικές για ΠΓΔΜ - 4/5/2009 7:00:00 πμ (4 May 2009)

http://www.naftemporiki.gr/news/static/09/05/04/1659086.htm

Ισραηλινοί βομβαρδισμοί στη Λωρίδα της Γάζας

Ισραηλινά πολεμικά αεροπλάνα βομβάρδισαν, νωρίτερα σήμερα, τρεις υπόγειες σήραγγες στη νότια εσχατιά της Λωρίδας της Γάζας (μέσω των οποίων, από το Ισραήλ, εκτιμάται πως η Χαμάς λαμβάνει οπλισμό) σκοτώνοντας δύο Παλαιστίνιους, ύστερα από τη ρίψη βλημάτων από την Λωρίδα της Γάζας προς το Ισραήλ, όπως ανέφεραν αργά σήμερα οι αρχές της ασφάλειας.

Υπενθυμίζεται ότι στη Λωρίδα της Γάζας μετά από μία 22ημερών ισραηλινή επίθεση, με την ονομασία «Συμπαγές μολύβι», επικρατεί εκεχειρία μετά από την 18η Ιανουαρίου φέτος.

Από την πολυήμερη επίθεση του Ισραήλ, σύμφωνα με έναν παλαιστινιακό απολογισμό 1.417 Παλαιστίνιοι έχασαν τη ζωή τους, από τους οποίους οι 926 ήταν πολίτες.

Κατά τους Ισραηλινούς, όμως, ο τελικός απολογισμός των ίδιων επιχειρήσεων ήταν: 1.166 Παλαιστίνιοι νεκροί και από αυτούς οι 295 ήταν πολίτες.

Η Χαμάς έχει τον απόλυτο έλεγχο στη Λωρίδα της Γάζας από του Ιουνίου 2007 και μετά. Κρατεί όμηρό της τον Ισραηλινό δεκανέα, Γιλάντ Σάλιτ.

Hμερομηνία :02-05-09

 

www.kathimerini.gr με πληροφορίες από ΑΠΕ-ΜΠΕ

 

Για το παιδομάζωμα

Letter to THE GREEK STAR OF CHICAGO;

Dear Editor,

I would like to correct some of the falsehoods included in an article published in your April 2, 2009 issue about the documentary “Shelter from the storm: Children of the Greek Civil War”.

While in it Mrs Bumbaris states that the “”Storm” is neither intended to be a political film nor to spark controversy”, that is exactly what it is: a very political film.

Note that Riki van Boeschoten, a professor at University of Thessaly, in Larisa, has written two books* based on the recollections of people from Ziaka, the village of Mrs Bumbaris father in the region of Grevena, in western Macedonia.  In them, she includes the recollections of several members of the Bumbaris family, identified as local chieftains or just members of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE). In the “Storm”, Mrs Bumbaris is reproducing the same material, but without telling that it is the communists view. It presents as facts old  propaganda against Greece and the Greek Army, and spreads the same lies about the reasons for taking 28,400 children from their parents and into the Iron Curtain during 1948.

Here are some of the worst falsehoods told by Mrs Bumbaris:

–   The Communist Party of Greece (KKE) was never called the Democratic Party. The outlaw communist guerillas, fighting the Greek government in 1946-49, were using the name Democratic Army of Greece (DAG).

–   There were never any generals of the Greek Army telling villagers to send their children into the Iron Curtain. Mrs Bumbaris must be confusing the “capetanios” of DAG's guerillas with the generals of the Greek Army. The Greek children were taken for political reasons based on a decision by Comintern, which the KKE accepted, and not for Paidofylagma as they were claiming, and Mrs Bumbaris states again here as fact. 

–   There is not a single case of children hurt by bombardment or any other means by the Greek Army. The Greek Army NEVER bombarded inhabited villages or towns, even when they were overran by the DAG, and never took hostages, as the DAG did in dozens of cases when it occupied for short periods Greek towns. Its retreats were routinely covered by taking whole families hostages into the mountains, in some cases hundreds of them.

–   KKE's membership or group of sympathizers was never more than a tiny percentage of the Greek population. There were a few cases of small villages, where strong personalities or other factors produced strong majority support for KKE. That seems to be the case with Ziaka. A big percentage of the DAG's guerillas, and most of the women were forcibly put in their ranks from villages that were within areas under the communists' control.

The organized abduction of Greek children and their transfer to the countries of the Iron Curtain, was one of the most dramatic events of the Greek Communist Insurrection of 1946-49.  The story of paidomazwma, as it has become known from a similar policy of the Othoman Empire, officially began on March 3, 1948. Then, the Radio station of the communists informed that “during the last part of the Balkan Youth Council in Belgrade a univocal decision was taken to aid the children from Greece, ages 3-15 years old by taking them to neighboring democratic countries, where nursing and education could be provided”

This decision was ratified in the Kristallopigi Convention of members of KKE (under the direction of Markos Vafeiadis -the then leader of DAG) on February 10-20, 1948. Right after, children from villages of the Kastoria and Kozani regions of western Macedonia were taken to neighboring communist countries. Their parents were informed that if they did not give their children willingly, the children would be taken away by force.That is exactly what did happen in many villages.

The Minister of Public Education of the Republic of Skopje, Mitra Mitrovitz Tzilas, who also was a central figure of Comintern, originated the basic theme and the details of this plan. She, through Paidomazwma, introduced her revolutionary ideas about education: remove the children from the “reactionary” influence of the parents, so they can be raised according to communist theories. This new kind of education was based on the “collectivism” theory. Lieutenant Colonel Simits, a former Ambassador of Yugoslavia to Ankara, Turkey, and during this time one of the leaders of the Balkan Youth in the Comintern, undertook the “education” of the abducted children.

Reaction to Paidomazwma worldwide was strong. For brevity I include only two:

a) The Greek government sent letters and memos to the Balkan Committee of UN, to the General Secretary of UN and to all state-governments of the Western World seeking help for this heinous crime. On June 3, 1948 the Greek Foreign Ministry asked all the communist countries for the return of the children. The Foreign Minister received an answer, stating that due to philanthropic reasons the children won't be returned to Greece, if peace does not prevail in Greece.

b) On May 21, 1948 the Balkan Committee of UN wrote a full report, stating that the abduction of Greek children was part of a plan to exterminate the Greek nation, characterizing the act as genocide.

In the end, from the 28,400 children taken, a few thousands were returned to their parents when the latter were left in Greece. When the parents added up in the Iron Curtain countries -not only in the Soviet Union- as political refugees with the defeated DAG or taken by DAG as hostages, in most but not all cases, they were eventually united with their children. A few thousand children, with and without parents, were relocated in the fifties into then Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia and were indocrinated to become “Macedonians”.

I understand and support Mrs Bumbaris' initiative to present the recollections of her father and his family in a film, but she should do it honorably, stating that she presents the communists  point of view or what they told her, and not true  history. She should not mislead her future viewers, nor slander Greece and its Army!

Sincerely,

Ioannis Bougas (Montreal)

(author of “H FONI TIS IRENES”, the true Paidomazwma story of Irene Damopoulou)

ioannis.bougas@sympatico.ca

(*) The titles of the books, written in Greek, are: “Perasame polles mpores paidaki mou” and

      “Anapoda Xronia”.