DID YOU KNOW
          ...that the very first American citizen kidnapped for political reasons was Ellen Stone, missionary, by the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization in September of 1901?     ...that the first international police force was deployed in Macedonia between 1904 and 1908?      ...that the policemen were trained in a school founded by the Germans and supervised by Italian officers?      ...that between 1904 and 1908 Macedonia was occupied by an international force and divided in sectors placed under the control of different Europeans powers and that this model has been used for Kosovo since 1999?     ...that “the boat men” were a group of young anarchists who on April 28, 1903 organized a series of terrorist attacks in Salonika which included explosions on a French steamer, the gas lighting city network, and the imperial Ottoman bank?     ...that these young Macedonian revolutionaries believed that their death was necessary to the revolution and that their names should not be remembered?     ...that during the Ilinden Uprising about 30,000 Macedonian fighters confronted an army of    350,000 Ottoman soldiers?     ...that the Uprising lasted from August to October,1903?     ...that IMRO established the very first government in Macedonia known as The Krushevo Republic in August 1903?     ...that the European diplomats assassinated during the Ilinden Uprising was the Russian Consul in Monastir (today Bitola), on August 3, 1903 by an Albanian soldier serving in the Ottoman Army?     ...that the program of IMRO was inspired first by the Russian revolutionary Bakounin and later by the Bulgarian revolutionaries (1876), in particular Christo Botev, a poet who was killed while fighting the Ottoman Turks in 1876?     ...that Boris Sarafov, president of IMRO from 1899 to 1901 is remembered for saying: " Macedonia needs graves, graves of insurgents"?     



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