Skopie    3 March 2008    FOCUS News Agency

  Veles Monument to Todor Alexandrov

VELES Mayor Kocevski

"TODOR ALEXANDROV'S
MONUMENT WILL BE DESTROYED"

 
Veles. There was another incident of desecration involving the monument of Todor Alexandrov in Veles on Thursday, February 28, Dragi Karov, who put up the monument in the yard of his own house, told FOCUS News Agency. He immediately restored damage to the monument on the very next day, Friday.

"For 15 days I've been fighting against the Serbian communist bandits, against the Serbian janissary State security. They've been sending me orders to take the monument away. They pull it down, I put it back up. This has been going for several days. I've been guarding it all night, but in the moment I fell asleep state security sent people who splashed the monument with black paint and knocked it down. I put it back up, painted it and now it is like brand new" Dragi Karov said. He declared that he had been told by the Mayor of Veles and state security, that tomorrow, Monday, with police reinforcements from Skopie they will remove the monument by force. He pointed out that this action was against illegal since no such laws applied to private property. He added that Todor Alexandrov and Vanche Mihailov were the most prominent heroes of the independence of Macedonia. He announced that for 17 years the Bulgarians had been put under constant terror in Macedonia and that's why people feared to come at the official unveiling of the monument. According to Karov no one would dare admit that they were Bulgarian.