REACTION IN STRUMICA TO THE UDB EXECUTION OF FIVE STUDENTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R009200540015-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 25, 1999
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: November 30, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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I N" R MATN REPOR169-
JBBJEC Re ar. A :iarz in 5 trumic;t to tine tJDB F,xecutior
of Five Students
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1,, Thousands of people attended the funerals in Strumica of ti2.er, five students
killed by the UDB near Dorlobosn ~ The Militia was unable to prevent people
from entering the cemetery,, The bodies' were examined at the cemetery by
Dry Alexandar Belev, the fa th4 I' of one of the victims, who stated that the
bodies had been mistreated and that the students were shot from. a short
distanced The body of Doris Belev had many bruises on it-and-two bullet
20 The Town Committee of the Communist Party became concerned because of
. reaction of the people in .Strumica to the news of the death of the <
students, and they decided to hold meetings in various enterprises in
Strumica to explain that the students were lawfully killed while they were
attempting to escape to ('reece.
3b Risto Pilicev, Organisation Secretary of the Town Committees was. ordered
to speak at a meeting held in a. brick factory on 16 August 19, 1. Pili.cev
told the workers present that t; e students were sons of bourgeois parents,
No stated that Kiro Topcev, the fat-her of the murdered stude-erat, Stevo-
was a tavexii keeper pr?ir.r to -.Jorid nz 11 and had exploited the. poor
peoplc;y moreover, that Tu she ' Ja.raj v ; the father of Ccor'gi JJarmov,, was a
factory oiner prior to World d'Iar? 11 sn had e p.~o t;~;d his workers. He
futher stated that Dr0 Velev wc , now ex >l.o'Iting the, poor people and was
earning 50,000 dinars per month from their ee~ .see ;:
Pilicev said that these persons were not liquidated after the war bec ,use
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it was hoped that they would improve their behavior in the new society,
The sons of these men were permitted to attend schools, :but they did ever
thing in their power, against the Communist Party and the State1r Therefore,,
according to Pilicev? it was right that they should be killed while
attempting to escape to Greece? Pil.icev warned that this would happen to
arq+one, that tried to escape fro r Yugcsl,avia0,
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