Their most prominent victim, shot by Panica after they had dinner together in November 1907. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Sarafov …pic.twitter.com/ohKQy8YOaT
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Melpomena “Mencha” Karnicheva who shot Panica in Vienna’s Burgtheater in 1925.pic.twitter.com/vDIbQHrD8o
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Stoyan Filipov who gunned down Sandanski in 1915. He himself was killed by communists in 1944.pic.twitter.com/1aQ4EbioRQ
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Sandanski and Panica made headlines in 1909 when their irregulars joined the Ottoman Third Army in marching on Istanbul and defeating a coup by Sultan Abdulhamid. The so-called Action Army (Hareket Ordusu). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/31_March_Incident …
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Since the VMRO men made a name for robbing Istanbul Greeks and Armenians, the term "Bulgar çapulcu" (Bulgarian looter) stuck. Erdoğan brought back çapulcu during the 2013 Gezi protest -calling protestors (çapulcular). Hugh Pope reminded us back then.https://eng.majalla.com/2013/10/article55245700/ottoman-ghosts …
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By then, Sandanski was well-known in the West. He had been one of the kidnappers of U.S. missionary Ellen Mary Stone. The IMRO ransomed Miss Stone for 14,000 Ottoman liras in 1902. The episode was called "America's first hostage crisis".pic.twitter.com/vo9x7OKvzf
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"The Miss Stone Affair" is the stuff of legend in both North Macedonia and Bulgaria. It has been fictionalized into films in both countries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Stone_Affair …
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