Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of maps
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- 1 Towards a history of humanitarian intervention
- Part I Early modern precedents
- Part II The Great Powers and the Ottoman Empire
- 5 ‘From an umpire to a competitor’: Castlereagh, Canning and the issue of international intervention in the wake of the Napoleonic Wars
- 6 Intervening in the Jewish question, 1840–1878
- 7 The ‘principles of humanity’ and the European powers' intervention in Ottoman Lebanon and Syria in 1860–1861
- 8 The guarantees of humanity: the Concert of Europe and the origins of the Russo–Ottoman War of 1877
- 9 The European powers' intervention in Macedonia, 1903–1908: an instance of humanitarian intervention?
- Part III Intervening in Africa
- Part IV Non-European states
- Part V Postscript
- Index
9 - The European powers' intervention in Macedonia, 1903–1908: an instance of humanitarian intervention?
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 April 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of maps
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- 1 Towards a history of humanitarian intervention
- Part I Early modern precedents
- Part II The Great Powers and the Ottoman Empire
- 5 ‘From an umpire to a competitor’: Castlereagh, Canning and the issue of international intervention in the wake of the Napoleonic Wars
- 6 Intervening in the Jewish question, 1840–1878
- 7 The ‘principles of humanity’ and the European powers' intervention in Ottoman Lebanon and Syria in 1860–1861
- 8 The guarantees of humanity: the Concert of Europe and the origins of the Russo–Ottoman War of 1877
- 9 The European powers' intervention in Macedonia, 1903–1908: an instance of humanitarian intervention?
- Part III Intervening in Africa
- Part IV Non-European states
- Part V Postscript
- Index
Summary
We looked on in these ten last years at an appalling moral bankruptcy: the bankruptcy of European diplomacy at the time of the Armenian massacres. These are not only political failures there; they are moral failures, and they are paid for sooner or later … If we allow the renewal of this scandal in Macedonia, we will pay a still more expensive price. We will not have even bought, at the cost of this attack against humanity, a precarious and miserable peace, we moreover will have revealed forever that civilisation at present is no more for governments and for the people than a hypocritical cover for the workings of power.
Francis de Pressensé, Pour l'Arménie et la Macédoine (1904)For more than a year the financial commission has existed, with the civil agents and the military officers in place for more than three years. What have they done?
René Pinon, L'Europe et l'Empire Ottoman (1908)After the Congress of Berlin in 1878, the Ottoman government in Constantinople directly governed only six provinces (vilayets) in Europe: Adrianople (roughly corresponding to today's Thrace), Scutari (in today's Albania), Janina (north-western Greece) and the three Macedonian provinces of Kosovo (Kossovo, with its chief town of Skopje or Uskub), Monastir (Bitolja) and Salonica. The population was of an extremely mixed background. The Muslims comprised Turks, Albanians (especially in the western areas) and Pomaks; the Christians mostly comprised Slavs (Serbs and Bulgarians) but also Greeks and Vlachs (Arumanian or Kutzo-Vlach, a minority closely akin to the Romanians).
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