The traitor Veljan Slavevski from Recica

[Soldier of Macedon]

Originally Posted by VMRO

Thought i'd add something else that i came across concerning the traitor "Veljan Slavev(ski) from Recica" - The below is from the memoirs of the Vojvoda "Dejan Dimitrov" from the Ohrid region.

VMRO, are those memoirs available in a book?

[VMRO]

Originally Posted by Soldier of Macedon

VMRO, are those memoirs available in a book?

I believe they would be but i don't have the book, i got the excerpts from a book about the village of Recica.

[VMRO]

According to the memories of Lazar Dimitrov, the Traitor Veljan Slavev from the village of Recica was questioned for treason before the massacre at Rashanec and escaped during the commotion in which Turkish soldiers participated.

After escaping, he went straight to the Turkish army and gave up the positions of the komiti including the Macedonian population which was positioned in Rashanec.

[VMRO]

Битката траеше од зората до полноќ.Кастрофата кај „Рашанец“ беше предавството на Вељан, Симон, Јоан и Тасе, браќа Славеви од село Речица, Охридско; причината била што од нив се барало да му ја предадат на комитетот егзистенција на востаник. ја чита неговата пченица од 200 охридски кила, како и нивните овци, се разбира, на сметка.

Ова жито, како и нивните овци, споменатите браќа Славеви, предавници, го однеле кај Мефаил Ага во селото Косел и потоа ѝ кажале на војската каде се востаниците.

А Стојан Настев и неговото семејство прво го предадоа целото свое жито и околу 300 овци и кози во селските магацини; со овој гест им дал пример на другите селани доброволно да се предадат.

The battle lasted from dawn to midnight. The catastrophe at "Rashanec" was the betrayal of Veljan, Simon, Ioan and Tase, Slavevi brothers from the village of Recica, Ohrid; the reason was that they were required to hand over to the committee the livelihood of an insurgent. reads his wheat of 200 Ohrid kilos, as well as their sheep, of course, on account.

This grain, as well as their sheep, were taken by the above mentioned Slavevi brothers, traitors, to Mefail Aga in the village of Kosel and then told the army where the insurgents were.

Stojan Nastev and his family first handed over all their grain and about 300 sheep and goats to the village warehouses; with this gesture, he set an example for other villagers to surrender voluntarily.

[VMRO]

Text for the folk song sung about the epic in Rashanec, where the people's traitor "Veljan Slavev (Slavevski)" is mentioned.

[VMRO]

Veljan Slavev (Slaveski) from Recica betrayed 1700 people when he revealed to the Ottomans where the Macedonian freedom fighters were camping together with the population of the surrounding Ohrid villages were located.