Its true! No such thing happened !Skopje creates stories to make headlines in their news to make the Hellenes look like the bad guy and gain sympathy from the media. Its ALL to Generate publicity . Good or bad they see it as publicity and that what it is .... It is the ONLY way to keep this in the media is by posting "minor" incidents because there is no validity to the statements. Who is to check ? WHy would anyone even bother to check on a ripped tarp? They will do anything and blame any matter on their "friendly" naighbor. Notice how there arent any major reports on both ends? Its all a fraud just like their govt& just like everything else FYROM posts as a major article online. Anything to gain attention and try to have the public say " Oh woes me :( boo hoo hoo! Ridiculous! Seriously . Gruevski is lower than dirt

* WHAT A WASTE OF A WEBHIT this ARTICLE WAS... SICK SICK SKOPJE

Your report on Greece is offensive to Greece. A Greek official would never refer to a Vardarskan as a Makedon. What is your problem? You are a Slavic / Albanic people and just be proud of who you are!

It is highly suspicious that these supposed incidents of abuse are never reported by citizens of FYROM in Greece, but only made public after they cross the border into FYROM. If that is the case, anyone can make unsubstantiated claims about anything. Incidents of abuse should be reported to Greek police no matter the ethnic origin of the victim or their nationality.

Shame on Greek's. Macedonia for the Macedonians... Since day 1. Macedonian's did not agree to the Greek law so why should we now?? Racist Greeks, You have our land!!

aleksandra,we have your land ? dear you have nothing to do with macedonia! you are bardaskan,s slavic,s! stop the stupitidis! you waist your time! ........james the true greek macedon!!!

The Greek diaspora and Greece proper are under illusion.Macedonia exists for over 4 thousand years.Greece dominated Macedonia in 1913.Have you seen the official Greek map when Greece was formed as a State? Greece became a State in three fases.Greeks claim, no abuse of Macedonian drivers returning from Greece to Macedonia?This is a typical Greek propaganda as usual.Greece claimes there are no Macedonians living within Greek borders.The town called Ovcharani celebrated Ilinden {Agios Ilias}Does any Greek knows what that is?In 1903,August 2,the Macedonians organized a revolution againts the Ottoman Empire, established the first Republic in the Balkans.Our heroe Gotse Delcev was killed in the Lerin area.He was born in Kukush,it is 38 km north of Salonica.Yet, you Greeks deniyng that Macedonians exist in Northern Greece.Former Prime Minister Mitsotakis said"The problem with Macedonia was not the name but the Macedonian minority in Greece. from the mment I first saw it I recognized Skopjes theme in its dimensions. What made me uneasy from the begining was not the name of this country... the problem for me was how to avoid creating a second minority in Western Macedonia.If the problem of the Slavo-Macedonian minority in western Macedonia is added to the Muslim munority, which sadly, with our errors is a angerous development,the situation will become unsustanable for Greek external politics..."emphasised the former Greek Premier in the introduction of T.Skinakis book "For the name of Macedonia"Here is what ProfessorAthena Skoulariki a sociology professor at the University of Crete,for example says that Greece is tangled in a strategic dead end.In the course of the last 16 years we have lost one battle after another and still have not seriously considered what we are doing wrong.Why is the outside world not supporting the Greek thesis on this issue.Why after so many years of trying has Greece not succeeded in convincing the international public?asks professor Skoulariki.According to Skoulariki the Greek arguments are not convincing because it is a fundamental right of all people to freely choose their name.We insist that our neighbor has no right to use the name Macedonia,ignoring the fact that durring the 19th and 20th cencury there was a wider region called Macedonia."This year on July 18 to 20th more than 10 thousand former children refugee from Greece celabrated 60th year of exodus from Greece{28 thousand children}.Greece, still refuses to aknowlege the existance of Macedonian ethnicity in Greece.This is why Greece is not recognizing the Republic of Macedonia.Greeces purity claim is a myth.What is it wrong with Canada by recognizing all minorities,dont we live in harmony with each other?Greece can do the same.

Greek politicians, have said for the first time that this dispute is "ideological" [Greek politician] Pangalos). On a side note, I myself studied 2unit Macedonian as part of my Australian Higher School Certificate, and let me tell you, there was NOTHING greek about it. The Macedonian language is closely related to the oldest of all European languages. The Veneti. See the Dura-Europos inscriptions: http://www.unitedmacedonians.org/macedonia/stefov18.html Also, see the Human Rights Watch on Greece: http://hrw.org/doc/?t=europe_pub&c=greece ... and you will quite clearly see that Macedonians are NOT Greek and never have been.

Someone on here wrote : This year on July 18 to 20th more than 10 thousand former children refugee from Greece celabrated 60th year of exodus from Greece{28 thousand children}. The majority of people at the festival are GREEK people onlookers ....that live there too.. What is this minority nonsence. Its a group of slavs in a Slavic neighbrhood in Upper Greek Macedonia . You cant just WAKE up one morning and clain history etc etc The FYROMians are argumentative troublemakers that are looking to claim something because upper MAc is a spec of dirt ...they gain culture and history and tourism if they calim the name ... But I dont think the Greeks should let this happen and it probably never will... ALl this fuss over nonsence. FYROM is FYROM .Yes slavic Macedonia is one and Greek