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06-22-2012, 02:17 PM
The director of Bulgaria’s National Museum of History Bozhidar Dimitrov starts making a new film dedicated to the genocide of Bulgarians in Macedonia between 1944 and 1949.
“It has turned out that we know more about the Armenian genocide, about the genocide of Jews called Holocaust; we learnt something about the genocide of Thracian Bulgarians in 1913, but we know almost nothing about the genocide of Bulgarians in the first years of the so-called people’s power in former Yugoslavia,” Bozhidar Dimitrov told FOCUS News Agency.
According to him more than 120,000 Bulgarians were affected by the actions of the so-called people’s power in the above mentioned period. The population of the then People’s Republic of Macedonia was about 1,2-1,3 million people, which means they account for about 10% of the population.
Immediately after the Serbian communists came into power, there was mass killing of Bulgarian intellectual, military, economic and political elite who had the bad fortune to remain in Macedonia, instead of following the Bulgarian army and withdrawing into Bulgaria, said the museum director.
“In the Skopje Fortress, for example, about 900 Bulgarian officers, sergeants and soldiers who were of a Macedonian origin and were mobilized and remained in Macedonia, hoping they will liberate Thessaloniki, were killed. The motto was ‘Towards Thessaloniki, not towards Srem’; instead they were told they would fight on the Srem front between Yugoslavia and Hungary, against the Germans. Those who refused – and they were two battalions, 900 people – were killed in the most violent way in the Skopje Fortress,” he said further.
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“It has turned out that we know more about the Armenian genocide, about the genocide of Jews called Holocaust; we learnt something about the genocide of Thracian Bulgarians in 1913, but we know almost nothing about the genocide of Bulgarians in the first years of the so-called people’s power in former Yugoslavia,” Bozhidar Dimitrov told FOCUS News Agency.
According to him more than 120,000 Bulgarians were affected by the actions of the so-called people’s power in the above mentioned period. The population of the then People’s Republic of Macedonia was about 1,2-1,3 million people, which means they account for about 10% of the population.
Immediately after the Serbian communists came into power, there was mass killing of Bulgarian intellectual, military, economic and political elite who had the bad fortune to remain in Macedonia, instead of following the Bulgarian army and withdrawing into Bulgaria, said the museum director.
“In the Skopje Fortress, for example, about 900 Bulgarian officers, sergeants and soldiers who were of a Macedonian origin and were mobilized and remained in Macedonia, hoping they will liberate Thessaloniki, were killed. The motto was ‘Towards Thessaloniki, not towards Srem’; instead they were told they would fight on the Srem front between Yugoslavia and Hungary, against the Germans. Those who refused – and they were two battalions, 900 people – were killed in the most violent way in the Skopje Fortress,” he said further.
http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n281145