“We Living in the Middle of a Hybrid War. This is a high time to recognize that democratic and progressive societies are threatened by the abuse of the democratic instruments themselves. More precisely, democracies are under attack by sophisticated, complex and persistent propaganda machineries, intelligence and counterintelligence agencies, underground and criminal structures, fake civil societies, religious circles, businesses, media, academia, etc. etc. All of them are a part of the hybrid warfare that is waged by authoritarian regimes for quite some time now, and particularly intensified after the invasion of the Russian Federation on Ukraine. Sociopolitical circumstances within the country, the region and much wider, are such that provide unlimited space for fierce disinformation and hate campaigns against progressive individuals and groups in the society.” said president of CIVIL, Xhabir Deralla, in Conference: “Attacks on democracy and human rights: Civil society organizations in support of Western Balkans societies facing disinformation, hate speech and hybrid attacks”.
He said that the aim is to discredit prominent opinion makers, media, civil society organizations, local and central government institutions, even in science, in order to strip them from the confidence of the public in their reports, analysis, measures and other relevant outputs.
“The attacks against civil society activists and journalists are countless. It is not just a hate propaganda by some angry group of radicals and bitter trolls. It is more than obvious that a whole propaganda machinery stands behind a multi-year continuous attacks on civil society actors, particularly those that are visible and influential, active on daily basis, such as CIVIL”. said Xhabir Deralla, Wednesday (7.28.2021) Skopje.
