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Bulgarians protest in front of North Macedonia's embassy in Brussels

Bulgarians from the Shemeto Human Rights Protection Initiative Committee protested in front of the Embassy of North Macedonia in Brussels. They want the European Commission to monitor discrimination against Bulgarians in the former Yugoslav republic.

The chairman of the committee, Zhivko Chakrakchiev, told BNR that people from North Macedonia were supposed to take part in the protest, but were stopped and detained so that they could not get on the plane and arrive on time.
"There are many other cases of discrimination. For example, the fear of declaring themselves Bulgarians, as they want to do, because they have such self-awareness. Or if enroll their children as Bulgarian children, they absolutely cannot find a place in a kindergarten or school," Chakrakchiev said.
This is the committee's third protest. The previous ones were in front of the embassies of North Macedonia in Berlin and Paris.



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