Paidomazoma: the gathering of the Greek Children

In 1948, Cominform, the first official forum of the international communist movement since the dissolution of the Comintern, put into action a plan to take hostage to communist countries children from Greece during the Greek civil war. The aim was to re-educate the children as well as blackmail the populace and the Greek government towards reaching a settlement leading to a partition of Greece and the subsequent creation of an internationalist "Macedonian" Republic. This move has favoured by the Yugoslav dictator Josip Broz Tito and had been a Comitern policy aimed at destroying the national states of the Balkans through the creation of internationalist republics. Today several FYROM sources claim........

Slav Macedonian autonomists in the Greek civil war

By John Koliopoulos and Thanos Veremis

Another aspect ofthe civil conflict, underestimated m left-wing revisionist studies, was the role of the Greek Slav Macedonian autonomists in  both the outbreak and general direction ofthat war. The KKE and EAM journals referred to them as 'persecuted Slav Macedonian ELAS fighters', while Greek Slav Macedonians called themselves 'Makedontsi'  the name used at the time in the People's Republic of Macedonia to identify those belonging to the new nation. As already seen they had served, in quick succession and even simultaneously, more than one master and cause until the time when Tito gave them a new Identity and a new cause to fight for. These Makedontsi began intruding in the sprmg of 1945 into the Greek frontier highlands in small bands to avenge past or current wrongs. Their numbers increased as more and more Slav Macedonians were prosecuted in Greece, nominally for collaboration with the Axis occupying forces but in essence for having eventually opted for the KKE or the People's Republic of Macedonia. Of some 8,000 Slav Macedonians estimated to have crossed between 1944 and 1945 Into the Republic The Makedontsi raiders perhaps did not exceed 1,000. Later, in 1947 the Yugoslav government maintained that as many as 24.000 Slav Macedomans from Greece had sought refuge in Yugoslavia in the post-Varkiza period. but this number almost certainly included Slav Macedonians who had fled before the December 1944 rebellion.

Of these initial Makedontsi raiders, whom the KKE party journals represented as being 'persecuted ELAS fighters', perhaps not more than one-third had really served with ELAS. They had generally led a precarious existence in refugee camps which the government of the People's Republic of Macedonia had set up for the purpose. Their leaders men like Paschalls Mitropoulos, Mlichael Keramitzis and Naum Peios  were doing odd jobs for the government of the Republic, and most of them were members of the KKE and at the same time of the Republic's ruling Communist Party. These refugee raiders projected Macedonianism among Greece's Slav Macedoians and heralded the imprudent 'liberation' of 'Egqska Makedonza' (Macedonia of the Aegean), I.e. Greek Macedonia. It soon became clear that avenging past or current wrongs was not their ...

The creation of UNSCOB and its investigation into the question of the "paidomazoma "(Greek Abducted Children)

The Greek question was brought before the Security Council of the United Nations three times during 1946. The first two debates, which were occasioned by complaints from the Soviet Union and the Ukraine respectively, ended inconclusively.[1] The third debate followed an appeal by the Greek Government, made on 3rd December 1946 after detailed consultations with the United States, that the Secretary-General "give early consideration to a situation which was leading to friction between Greece and her neighbours". [2]

On 19th December 1946 the Security Council established a commission of investigation, but the report which was presented by this body on 23rd May 1947 was not unanimous, the western members supporting the views of the Greek Government, while the representatives of the Soviet Union and Poland rejected the findings of the majority. During the following debates in the Security Council, resolutions from both sides were defeated by vetoes, and the matter again ended in stalemate.[3]

The question was then brought by the United States before the General Assembly where there ....

Tragedies of the abducted Greek children of 1948: the reality of the FYROM claims

In 1948, Cominform, the first official forum of the international communist movement since the dissolution of the Comintern, put into action a plan to take hostage to communist countries children from Greece during the Greek civil war. The aim was to re-educate the children as well as blackmail the populace and the Greek government towards reaching a settlement leading to a partition of Greece and the subsequent creation of an internationalist "Macedonian" Republic. This move has favoured by the Yugoslav dictator Josip Broz Tito and had been a Comitern policy aimed at destroying the national states of the Balkans through the creation of internationalist republics. Today several FYROM sources claim or at least believe the abducted children were FYROMacedonian. Indeed that they were not abducted, rather they were refugees fleeing the Greek army.

It was in the month of November 61 years ago when the United Nations issued a resolution condemning the abduction of the Greek children. The text of the resolution and its context have been presented in my last article. The tragic stories of the abducted children that follow defy belief.

Last week a conference took place at the University of Utah, sponsored by the United Pseudo-Macedonia Diaspora (UMD), a lobby group campaigning against "Greek atrocities" in Cyprus and other out of touch with reality issues. There was....

A war crime against Greek children portrayed as a Greek crime against "Macedonians" (FYROM, Greece)

by Tymphaios
November 12, 2009
americanchronicle.com


In a recent visit to Australia, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) prime minister Nikola Gruevski spoke to FYROM expatriates about the inability for them to live freely in their FYROMacedonian motherland in Greece and Bulgaria: "Macedonians (sic) in Australia are enjoying a unique opportunity to live together with their compatriots of Aegean and Pirin Macedonia, which does not happen in our motherland". At the same time extremists such as Risto Stefov are accusing Greece of a war atrocity: expelling up to 50,000 "Macedonians" from Greece during the Greek civil war in 1946-49. These are presumably the FYROMacedonians now living in Australia free, while it is not possible to do so in the FYROMacedonian motherland - in Greece and Bulgaria.

These are extraordinary statements. Indeed there were even various documentaries (eg. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVCZTmXR1h0, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOFcR2yTKN8) full of hate and a tearful song sung by a seductive lady produced in FYROM since Gruevski was elected Prime-Minister, portraying refuges from Macedonia arriving in Yugoslavia in 1949. These documentaries show orphaned children in the custody of foster "mothers" offloaded from trains. The videos were uploaded on YouTube with English translations, accompanied by inflammatory statements such as :

The Impact of the Macedonian Question on Civil Conflict in Greece (1943-1949) by Evangelos Kofos

The Impact of the Macedonian Question on Civil Conflict in Greece (1943-1949) by Evagelos Kofos

Report Of The Commission Of Investigation Concerning Greek Frontier Incidents(1947)

On May 27, 1947, the Commission of Investigation Concerning Greek Frontier Incidents submitted its report to the Security Council. Appointed under the Security Council resolution of December 19, 1946, the Commission, composed of representatives of the eleven members of the Security Council, held the first of its 113 meetings in Athens on January 30, 1947.

The Commission had a secretariat of 27 persons, rotated the chairmanship weekly among its members, and decided that the liaison officers appointed by Greece, Yugoslavia, Albania and Bulgaria would participate in ail public meetings on the same basis as had the representatives of these countries when the matter was originally before the Security Council.

A total of 256 witnesses or statements were presented, of which 79 were submitted by Greece, 22 by Albania, 33 by Bulgaria and 60 by Yugoslavia. Over 30 field inves­tigations were made in the four countries concerned, by the Commission itself or by one or another of the seven teams appointed by it.

The members of the Com­mission were: Australia, J. D. L. Hood; Belgium, Lt. Gen. Maurice Delvoie; Brazil, Antonio Mendes Vianna; China, Dr. Wunsz King; Colombia, Francisco Urrutia; France, Georges Daux; Poland, Jerzy Putrament; Syria, Ihsan el-Sherif; United Kingdom, R. T. Windle; United States, Mark F. Ethridge; and the Soviet Union, A. A. Lavrischev.

Following the resolution of the Security Council of April 18, 1947, the Commission set up a Subsidiary Group on April 30, with headquarters at Salonika, with its authority limited to

a) investigation of such incidents since March 22, 1947, as might be brought to its attention,

b) refusal to hear evidence which had been or could have been available to the Commission itself, and

c) re­quirement that no investigation would be made except by formal decision.

The report, prepared by two drafting committees under the chairmanship of Dr. Wunsz King (China) and Francisco Urrutia (Colombia), the latter of whom was the Commission's rapporteur, was in four parts. The first two parts, containing the history and organization, plus a survey of the evidence, were accepted by all repre­sentatives, although some minor reservations were entered by the United Kingdom and Soviet members.The conclusions of the Commission, embodied in Part III, were accepted by Aus­tralia, Belgium, Brazil, China, Colombia, Syria, the United Kingdom and the United States.

The general conclusion as about Macedonia issue was as follows:

2) The Yugoslav and Bulgarian Governments themselves revived and promoted a separatist movement among the Slav minorities in Macedonia. In making this finding, the Commission pointed out that some 20,000 Greek citizens had fled to Yugoslavia and some 5,000 to Bulgaria — most of them Slavs — and that the treatment of this group by Greek officials had "provided fertile breeding ground for separatist movements." In Yugoslavia, Macedonian separatism was the special goal of an organization called the NOF (National Labor Front) which had its headquarters in Skoplje and Monastir.

Below you can read the whole section that has as reference the Macedonia issue...

Sources:

International Organization, Vol. 1, No. 3, (Sep., 1947), pp. 494-508

A Decade of American Foreign Policy: Basic Documents, 1941-4,(U.S. Govt. Print. Off), 1950