“WHITE TERROR” AND THE MACEDONIANS IN NOF, AFZH AND NOMS

“WHITE TERROR” AND THE MACEDONIANS IN NOF, AFZH AND NOMS

5. After NOF’s initial failure to motivate the Macedonian people to re-arm and return to the mountains, the Greek authorities stepped up the so-called “white terror” and launched crimes against the population to unimaginable proportions.

After World War II ended, why was it necessary to again abuse the people in Greece? Most of the population was eager to end the bloodshed, return to peace, restore their lives and repair the ruins around them. They were hungry for peace. The Macedonian people were also hungry for peace. They had been through many wars. For the most part, this was the reason why the Macedonians were not motivated to re-arm themselves and go to another war, with an unknown end. But after NOF failed to motivate them to rise up again and continue their struggle for freedom and for re-uniting their state, the Greek reactionary forces renewed and stepped up the terror tactics introduced by the Metaxas regime. People were left with two choices, either defend themselves or flee across the border, which was part of the plan.

“The idea was to provoke the Macedonian people so that they would raise arms against Greece, so that Greece would have no other choice but to defend itself against an aggressor who wanted to break away some of its territory!” In order to maintain good relations with the West, Yugoslavia naturally prepared the groundwork by creating and indoctrinating NOF, AFZH and NOMS to launch an armed uprising in Greek occupied Macedonia. At first the Macedonian people refused to participate but as the “white terror” was ramped up by the Greek fascist political right, committing unspeakable atrocities against the Macedonian civilian population, many Macedonians fled to the nearby mountains such as Vicho, Gramos and others and began arming and training in order to defend themselves. That was the beginning of the war. It was a war that was devastating for the Macedonian people; it was an ideological war that was to include external factors such as Britain and America; a war in which Greece would be a victim defending its territory from an aggressor. That would make it a legal war and if the end result was genocide, it would make it a legal genocide because these “Slavs” were fighting to seize a piece of Greek territory! Initially the Macedonian people were told that they needed weapons to defend themselves, but as soon as the real battles began, they were told they were fighting for “the unification of their Macedonia” and in the end, as Yugoslavia renounced them, they were told that they were fighting for human rights, to be equal to the Greeks. And finally, when the war was raging, they were told that they were fighting for their lives: “Fight or die ...”

At that time, there was no Macedonian man or woman who did not publicly say that he or she was not fighting for the re-unification of Macedonia. Many Macedonians were convinced that this was possible! And why did they believe that? Because the architects of this war, through NOF, AFZH and NOMS gave them false information in order to lure them into the war!

Let me say it again: There was no reason for this so-called Greek Civil War because it had already been decided by the Great Powers that Greek occupied Macedonia would remain within Greece. The most probable reason for the war was, and it makes sense, to destroy the Communist Party, as an evil for Greece, and at the same time solve the Macedonian Question in Greek occupied Macedonia because it was a potential threat to Greece’s security.

During the Greek Civil War:

a) The Macedonian people were persuaded to fight for the re-unification of Macedonia and to gain human rights, despite the fact that they were denied those rights as offered by the principles of the Atlantic Charter.

b) The Greek people were convinced that the Partisans were in fact “Slavic bandits” and with the help of the “Communists” were trying to seize a piece of Greek territory and hand it over to Tito’s Yugoslavia.

c) The outside world was convinced that this was a Greek Civil War, Greeks fighting against Greeks.

MACEDONIANS NOT MENTIONED IN WESTERN HISTORY

6. During the Greek Civil War: (a) the Macedonian people were led to believe that they were fighting to re-unite Macedonia and gain their human rights, even though they were robbed of their rights afforded to them by the Atlantic Charter, (b) the Greek people were led to believe that the Partisans were actually “Slav bandits” and, with the help of the “communists”, were attempting to carve out Greek territory and give it to Tito’s Yugoslavia, and (c) the outside world was led to believe that this was a Civil War - Greeks fighting against Greeks.

There is not a single word in Western history that “Macedonians” were actually involved and that they were fighting for their human rights. Why the three different narratives about one and the same war?

The British and the Americans were the “overseers” and “architects” of this war; couldn’t they tell who was involved and what the war was about? According to the classified documents of that time, and I have read hundreds of them, the British and Americans knew exactly what was going on and who was fighting against whom. Why then call it a Greek Civil War? To cover up the truth?!

Even though, proportionally, the Macedonian people were a larger factor in this war, they were never mentioned. Why? Was it done to cover up what was done to them? To cover up that they suffered genocide at the hands of the British and Americans?

What do the Macedonian people in Greek occupied Macedonia remember about the Greek Civil War and how do they interpret what they remember? Many I have spoken with remember what they had done and the events that took place around them. It was an intense moment in time. Human life did not matter much and hardly anyone cared to pay attention outside of trying to survive. A giant wave hit them and swept them away. In their struggle to survive they listened to the guiding voices coming from above and did what they were told! They remember these times as an era of brutal propaganda with destructive goals calling out on the people and wanting more of their blood… After the war ended it was followed by half a century of fear and silence… no matter where these people were… at home or exiled abroad. This fear and silence kept them from talking about what happened during the war… about the genocide they experienced… a forgotten genocide… an unreported genocide… an un-registered genocide with world institutions and with the international community… a guilt free genocide for those who had committed it!