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REACTIONS TO THE CONFERENCE OF BULGARIANS OF MACEDONIA
`KOMITI' FILL WITH
SMOKE OPENING CONFERENCE OF RADKO SOCIETY
1/11/2000
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1/11/2000
ADDITIONAL REACTIONS
TO THE CONFERENCE OF BULGARIANS OF MACEDONIA
`KOMITI' FILL WITH SMOKE OPENING
CONFERENCE OF RADKO SOCIETY
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Boris Neshovski, Pero Trajanovski and Tosho Trajkovski are
the three boys who set off the smoke bombs at the opening
conference of the Radko socitey in the Holiday Inn Hotel in
Skopje. They are members of the group known as `Komiti'
(supporters of the football team `Vardar'). Yesterday, they
turned themselves in and in the presence of their lawyer
pleaded guilty.
In their words, the idea to fling bombs in the conference
hall came to them spontaneously on hearing that there was
about to be founded the Radko society designed against the
Macedonian state and the Macedonian nation. According to
the members of the Radko society and the Bulgarian
ambassador to Macedonia, Angel Dimitrov, these boys are
hooligans and they should be deservedly punished, while
according to the major part of the Macedonian public they
are heroes despite their inappropriate behaviour. Charges
have been pressed against them and according to their
lawyer, Vladimir Stefanovski, who decided to waive the fees
in their case, for the deed they committed - breach of the
peace - they are likely to get two months' imprisonment.
On the other hand, despite all the recent information and
allegations against the Radko society, the Public
Prosecution in Ohrid announced that they had not yet
received sufficient evidence that `Radko' acts in breach of
the law and the Constitution. The Ohrid Court of Original
Jurisdiction issued an announcement which states that the
Radko society adheres to all the regulations. In other
words, there is no ground for the society to be wiped out
>from the court register book. As reported by `Vecher', the
Ohrid court estimated that the fact that the society is
called `Radko' after the pseudonym of the notorious enemy
of Macedonia, Vancho Mihajlov, is not something that the
Court should take charge of. The Government should take on
the responsibility for that issue.
The Macedonian Institute for National History is not in
favour of a society based on anti-Macedonian ideas with a
program full of names of personalities and symbols about
which the Macedonian history has long since expressed its
negative position. The latest publication of the Institute,
`Macedonian Historical Dictionary', contains the following
assessment: ` The principal slogan of the VMRO headed by
Vancho Mihajlov was independent Macedonia with Bulgarian
ethnic character. As a supporter of the policy of
individual terror, helped by the Bulgarian authorities,
Mihajlov undertook many terrorist actions to kill
supporters of the VMRO left wing and the supporters of the
Macedonian national movement.'
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