The protests in FYROM
against the monopolization of power in the hands of ruling VMRO-DPMNE
party continued throughout the evening of 27th of April.
The demands by rioters, mostly young people as well as intellectuals
which oppose the social and economical stagnation, as well as the
forgery of history and culture, are focused on resignation of current
political elite and holding fair elections.
Most of the mainstream
media in FYROM, particularly television, willfully ignores the
demands by thousands of people from all parts of the political
spectrum and all ethnic and religious groups represented in the
country towards restoration of a civil society. Due to this
totalitarian monopoly over conventional media, there's a growth of
alternative methods of communications among citizens, mostly through
extensive usage of Internet social networks. Yesterday's (Wednesday)
protests in Skopje were particularity large and they show no evidence
of “fading away” of participant's will to oppose the current
regime.
These riots in FYROM's capital city ended in front of the
Government palace where rioters paint-bombed the images of the leader
of VMRO-DPMNE and strongman of the far-right, Nikola Gruevski as well
as of the President of the small central Balkan country, Ѓorge
Ivanov. Protesters in Skopje are joined by citizens of many of the
small towns throughout the country as well as by some sections of
FYROM Slavic Diaspora, which is unprecedented situation in the last
25 years.
