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1<\/span> The senior-year student Toni Sali passed away at 19. He fought with the state for 10 years to get his unique master citizen number. The Office for Management of Registers wouldn\u2019t issue him a birth certificate. It wouldn\u2019t recognize his biological father and conditioned him with registering a foreign citizen as his parent, although he wasn\u2019t his father. And after that they asked him to have that paternity annulled \u2013 because such were our laws. And since Toni didn\u2019t have a unique master citizen number, he couldn\u2019t have a GP. Nor could he have social assistance. Nor a bank account. His family was poor, so he couldn\u2019t afford private health care. And just like that \u2013 Toni died. We don\u2019t know how. He\u2019s gone. But, it\u2019s like he\u2019s never even existed. All that\u2019s left are the fives in the report cards, because someone in this country figured out that based on the Convention on the rights of the child Toni could enroll in school even if he didn\u2019t have a unique master citizen number.<\/p>\n

Everything is done according to the law in this country, where unique master citizen numbers are created for nonexistent citizens, where several ID cards with different addresses are issued to the same people for vote rigging, where valid forged passports are issued to criminals from all over the world, but there you go \u2013 when it comes to Toni from Shutka, who was a poor straight A student who won awards, nobody in the country could find a solution.<\/p>\n

How will they live with Tony\u2019s death, all those clerks who had been harassing the kid and his parents with full stops and commas for 15 years, bogging them down in red tape, sending them from one counter to another, from one institution to another and kept convincing them that \u2013 such were the laws, and the laws had to be obeyed.<\/p>\n

In the end, it will turn out that Toni\u2019s case was a systemic mistake of the institutions. In a couple of days we\u2019ll forget about it. Institutions don\u2019t have a soul. But the people working in those institutions have a first name and a surname. Do those people have a soul? Or do they have only a party membership card?<\/p>\n

2<\/span> When \u201cSAKAMDAKAZAM.MK\u201d started writing about the case of a child who didn\u2019t have a unique master citizen number, Toni was 17. Until then, his parents had been trying to exercise their rights through state institutions for 15 years. The Ombudsman has been dealing with the case for the last four years. Toni couldn\u2019t be helped even by the lawyer, who was representing him for free, or by the Ministry of Justice. The case is stuck in the Office of Management of Registers.<\/p>\n

And what can be done now? The Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg could find the state guilty, so that would give posthumous satisfaction to the parents.<\/p>\n

Everything feels meaningless when a child dies because of cruel bureaucratic negligence. Because of someone there who doesn\u2019t use their brain at work and gets paid with our money. Not only do they not use their brain, they\u2019re not even interested in the matter.<\/p>\n

3<\/span> If we look at the \u201cEuropean perspective\u201d of the country from Toni\u2019s and his family\u2019s perspective, we\u2019ll see how utterly meaningless our \u201cmoderate optimism\u201d is, hoping that Bulgaria will lift their veto for the EU just because President Rumen Radev didn\u2019t insult President Stevo Pendarovski while flying to Rome in the Bulgarian plane.<\/p>\n

And it\u2019s pointless to discuss the way the state decided to thank Serbia for giving us Covid-19 vaccines when we desperately needed them to protect at least the health care workers at the front lines of the fight against Covid-19. All those who are picking holes in this measure, forget that we used the Serbian vaccines to vaccinate the police and the army. The MPs as well, no matter how unimportant their opinion is.<\/p>\n

The state which is incapable of implementing an electronic pay-toll in the west of Macedonia, will thank Serbs by letting them travel to Greece without paying, instead of stimulating them to go to Ohrid and Prespa.<\/p>\n

4<\/span> All it took was for the pictures of the knitted penis models to be posted on the Facebook profiles of the groups leading the protest against the digital textbooks, to reveal that those people don\u2019t have a problem only with the digitalization. They\u2019re against sex education being taught in schools and demand that the topics of gender equality and inclusion be abolished, since as a result of that sort of education girls would have to wear the penis models. Where did they get that idea? Who knows. But they find it scary enough to be afraid.<\/p>\n

On top of that, they demand that religious education be brought back in the school curriculum. The only thing missing is for them to demand that girls and boys study in separate schools. Then, we\u2019ll be able to go back to the 19th century peacefully. Just in time to get a running start in the negotiations with Bulgaria.<\/p>\n

Translated by Nikola Gjelincheski<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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