Velimir Prelić

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Velimir Prelić
Велимир Прелић
Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
(today North Macedonia
)

Velimir Prelić (

Macedono-Bulgarian assassin Mara Buneva on 14 January 1928 in Skopje as punishment for his role in the Skopje student trial against activists of the Macedonian Youth Secret Revolutionary Organization
.

Biography

After his primary education, the family moved to Belgrade where young Prelić finished high school and Law Faculty. He joined the Serbian Chetnik Organization and was sent to Old Serbia during the Macedonian struggle (1903-1912) to fight as a Chetnik commander.

After the

Skoplje, which first met in February 1909 and was active until the end of that year when it was banned by the Young Turks.[2] He was one of ten members in the Central Committee which also included president Bogdan Radenković, Vasa Jovanović, Gligorije Elezović
, Milan Čemerikić, Sava Stojanović, Aleksandar Bukvić, David Dimitrijević, Đorđe Hadži-Kostić, and Jovan Šantrić.

After World War I, Prelic, who was a colonel from the Serbo-Croato-Slovene police, became a legal advisor of the

Ivan Mihajlov
, ordered the execution of Prelić.

Murder of Velimir Prelić

On 13 January 1928, Velimir Prelić was shot by Mara Buneva,[5] a prominent Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization member. The assassination was carried out on "Radomir Putnik" street in downtown Skopje, where he was shot in the back. Prelić died three days later at the Military Hospital in Skopje. During the Bulgarian occupation of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia from 1941 to 1945, at the site of the assassination, there was a memorial plaque honoring Mara Buneva, which was removed by the Macedonian government after the war. Since 2000, the memorial plaque has been erected and removed on several occasions.[6]

References

  1. ^ Српска демократска лига у Отомаској царевини. Манифест - Записник - Организациja, Издање "Српског клуба", Скопље, 1908, стр. 6
  2. ^ В. Крестић, Р. Љушић, Програми и статути српских политичких странака до 1918, Београд 1991, стр. 407, 410
  3. , p. 77.]
  4. ^ „Националноосвободителната борба в Македония, 1919 - 1941 г.“, Колектив, ИК „Знание“, София, 1998 г., стр.221.
  5. . Retrieved 4 July 2019.
  6. ^ "Hundreds Honor in Skopje Bulgarian Revolutionary Mara Buneva - Novinite.com - Sofia News Agency". www.novinite.com.