`  Decius despite what those people claim, it's literally more likely to meet a Turk in Norway than a Skopjan in Greek Macedonia. How can there be any violence if there's practically no minority? The 20 people who comprise the Skopjan political party Rainbow (got something like 100 votes in the elections) are the only official record I'm aware of and that's because they have a website. Once they tried to put up some propaganda posters written in Cyrillic but had their office smashed on the next day, and ``thus was this matter settled``. Macedonian Slavs will claim that some 95% of Greek Macedonia is ethnic Skopjan, opressed by the Greek government and forbidden to speak its language etc, etc, etc. The story about the infamous ``partition`` of Macedonia refers to the defeat of Bulgaria during the Balkan Wars. Of course there's no record of a ``Macedonian`` army ever taking part, although in their history books it can reach up to 100,000 soldiers (that would be 1/6 of the army of Napoleon and slightly smaller that the army that conquered Constantinople under Mehmed II). I mean those people are bitching about a territory that they didn't manage to steal in the last century and expect to be taken seriously. Imagine what kind of bitching would equivalently Greeks be entitled to against the Turks, for their mass expulsion from regions that had been inhabited by Greeks since ancient times (such as coastal Asia Minor, Constantinople, Pontus, Cyprus etc, etc)...  29 June 2005 12:44 (UTC)`