It was in February of 2015 when Zoran Zaev, head of the Social-Democratic Union of Macedonia (SDSM), the leader of the country’s largest opposition party, revealed that 20,000 citizens were illegally wire-tapped over a period of several years, starting as early as in 2011. Among those were government and opposition officials, academics, foreign diplomats, civil society, journalists, and others. Wire-taps revealed unprecedented government corruption, electoral fraud, political acts of revenge, and a murder cover-up that have taken place during the 10-year reign of VMRO-DPMNE (The Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization – Democratic Party for Macedonian National Unity).
A few months after the …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
