Todor Panitsa

Todor Panitsa
Born	July 2, 1876 Oryahovo, (present day Bulgaria)
Died	May 7, 1925 Vienna, Austria

Todor Nikolov Panitsa (July 2, 1876 Oryahovo, today Bulgaria - May 7, 1925 Vienna) was a Bulgarian revolutionary figure active in the region of Macedonia. He was one of the leaders of the left wing of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization. He took part in the struggles of the Bulgarians in the beginning of the 20th Century. He was one of the members of one of the one left political parties in Ottoman Macedonia in 1909–1910 - People's Federative Party (Bulgarian Section) which had its headquarters in Solun. Panitsa would like creat a Balkan Socialist Federation, and Macedonian State as a part of that Federation.

In 1907 Panitsa organized and threshed the assassinations of Boris Sarafov and Ivan Garvanov, a right wing's IMRO leaders.^[1] During the Young Turks Revolution together with Yane Sandanski he cooperated with the Ottoman authorities. During the First World War he was a mayor of Drama and after that he was sentenced as growed by unconscionable bargains. After the jail Panitsa got into contact with the Comintern and Bulgarian Communist Party. He was killed by Mencha Karnicheva in Vienna.^[2]

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