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Macedonia Fails to Honor Victims of 1911 Terror Campaign

Categories: Eastern & Central Europe, North Macedonia, Ethnicity & Race, Governance, History, Law, Politics, War & Conflict

GV Author Filip Stojanovski blogs [1] about Macedonia's failure to properly commemorate the victims of “the so-called ‘Donkey Assassinations'” that took place in the city of Štip [2] in 1911:

[…] Several months ago, several right-wing political parties including the ruling party running the Government of RM paid respects to the organizer of these assassinations, [Todor Aleksandrov [3]]. They organized several Orthodox Christian memorial services [4] in his honor, attended by at least one governmental minister. They even built an EUR 73.000 [5] equestrian monument dedicated to him in Skopje […], and sang а song [6] about him during party celebration. However, not a word about the victims. […]