Global Post: SKOPJE, Macedonia — On Jan. 12, thousands of citizens in the Republic of Macedonia marched through the streets here to express shared outrage over their government’s use of force against journalists and opposition members of parliament on Christmas Eve.
The forcible suspension of press freedom and the physical violation of parliamentary immunity were the final acts in an extended political drama to pass the government’s controversial budget proposal for 2013.
After the majority right-wing VMRO-DPMNE party cut off committee deliberations, and the speaker called for an up-or-down vote, opposition MPs blocked further progress by occupying the speaker’s platform.
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