Mara Buneva

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Mara Buneva (Bulgarian: Мара Бунева) (born 1902 in Tetovo, present day Republic of Macedonia - died January 13 1928 in Skopie (now Skopje), Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes) was a Bulgarian revolutionary of IMRO. She is famous for the assassination of a Serbian official Velimir Prelić.

Buneva was married to a Bulgarian officer in Bulgaria. On direct orders by IMRO in 1927, she went to Yugoslavia and opened a shoe shop there. At the appointed time on January 13, 1928, she closed the shop and went to a bridge on the river Vardar. There she met Prelić on his way to lunch, stopped him, pulled out a revolver and shot the official. Immediately after seeing Prelić die, she shot herself.[1].

Her act was part of a violent resistance movement against Serbian policies of forced assimilation of the Bulgarian population in Macedonia. Prelić had been known for arresting and torturing locals who openly identified themselves as bulgarians.

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  1. ^ Kedourie, Elie (1993). Nationalism. Blackwell Publishing, 99. ISBN 0631188851. 
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