October 9 will mark the 90th anniversary of the assassination of the Serbian King Alexander I of Yugoslavia by a Macedonian hitman called Vlado Georgiev, nicknamed Crnozemski (blackearth). The killing happened during a royal visit to France in 1934.
Alternate Comms website is not one for superstitions or the supernatural but operates on logical and reasoned analysis of events. However, it is a fascinating coincidence that a number of foreign figures directly or indirectly involved in the partitioning of and subjugation of Macedonia and mistreatment of Macedonians and/or putting down rebellions by native Macedonians have met grizzly or macabre or mysterious deaths.
Macedonia was under almost 500 years of Turkish Ottoman colonial rule which ended in 1913. But the countries that defeated Turkey, Greece, Serbia and Bulgaria then partitioned Macedonia amongst themselves and each launched brutal de-nationalisation policies aimed at the Macedonians living under their occupation.
In 1909 German Army officer Captain Hugo Von Goeben, who played big role in crushing Macedonian Ilinden Uprising in 1903 on behalf of Ottoman Empire, committed suicide by cutting his own throat after a love affair with a married women led him to killing her husband, a fellow German Army officer, on Christmas Day 1908.
Von Goeben’s “client” Turkish Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid II was overthrown in a “Palace coup” by the 1908 Young Turks uprising. He ordered the brutal crushing of 1903 Ilinden Uprising. By 1913 the Turkish Ottoman Empire had virtually collapsed in Europe.
In 1918 King Ferdinand I of Bulgaria – forced to abdicate after being on the losing side in WWI. His royal dynasty ended in 1944. Son King Boris III died under mysterious circumstances in 1943. Boris was an ally of Nazi German leader Adolf Hitler.
In 1920 Greek King Alexander I died of poisoning after being bitten by a monkey.
In August 1979 British Lord Mountbatten, a relative of the late British monarch Queen Elizabeth II; and the great-uncle of the current British, Australian, Canadian and New Zealand King, Charles III, was assassinated by a bomb by the Irish Republic Army (IRA) in its war against British rule in Northern Ireland. Lord Mountbatten had in 1946 urged Britain to strengthen its support for the Greek monarchist forces in the Greek Civil War (1946-49) and he had singled out ethnic Macedonians as being opponents. Lord Mountbatten was related to the Greek Royal Family.
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