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The Anti-Hellenic bias

  
 

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The Anti-Hellenic bias



                                               Human Rights Watch and Hellenism
 
    Anti-Hellenic bias is predominant in Western governments, media, and think tanks. An example
   of bias emanates from Human Rights Watch, which has steadily refused to document human
   rights abuses against Greeks in Turkey and Turkish occupied Cyprus. Simultaneously, Human
   Rights Watch has published extensively on the Muslims of Western Thrace and has referred to
   a Slavic element in Greece as "Macedonians".  The following site is intended to inform and to
   post developments with regard to the effort to publicize the anti-Hellenic bias of Human Rights
   Watch.
 
   In the coming years, the last Greeks of Constantinople, Imbros, and Tenedos will die from old
  age, or emigrate. There will be no more Greeks left anywhere in Asia Minor. Political developments
  in Cyprus do not appear to be anymore promising. Violations of the rights of Greeks in Cyprus are
  ongoing and there is not a word of criticism of Turkey's occupation. Human Rights Watch has
  published a great deal of material on the Muslims of Western Thrace. In the near future, it is
  likely that the Ecumenical Patriarchate will be compelled to leave Constantinople and Hellenism
  will be extinct in those ancient lands.
 
  At the same time, propagandists will continue to slander Hellenism by referring to nonexistent
  mistreatment of minorities in Greece. The following site will monitor Human Rights Watch and
  post news whenever there are new developments.
 
                               Theodore G. Karakostas


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The Anti-Hellenic bias

]   [HRW Acknowledgment]   [letter of Mr. T.Karakostas to HRW - 01.11.79]   [Letter to Mr. Roth (HWR) - October 1996]   [HWR reply Nov 20, 1996]   [HRW Reply June, 1998]   [HRW Reply Janyary 11, 1999]   [letter of Mr. Karakostas to HRW - 08/10/2001]   [Letter to Mr. Sagden(HRW) October 30, 2001]   [Repy of Jonathan Sugden, Noveber 9,2001]   [HRW and Hellenism - Oct. 2006]   [Return to Media]