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Inner Macedonian Revolutionary Organization - Bulgarian political party, it was a member of the ruling Union of Democratic Forces coalition between 1997-2000.
Coat of arms of VMRO. The inscription in the upper part of the coat of arms
means: "Union and strength".
by
Dov Gutterman at
http://www.bulgariaonline.bg/macedonia/ Flag with initials used on it. The Bulgarian/Macedonian name that sounds
something like "Vnutrashnya Makedonska Revolucionarna Organizacija". BMRO
fought primarily against Turks for the independence of Bulgaria and Macedonia,
and as might be seen from the flag, the ideology was anarchic-revolutionary (as
were the methods). The group was soon (at the beginning of the 20th century)
split between those wanting Macedonia a part of Bulgaria and those struggling
for the independence of Macedonia. Therefore, to cut the story short, today we
have VMRO both in modern Bulgaria and Macedonia (where it is called VMRO-DPMNE),
both being modern democratic parties that have long forsaken their anarcho-revolutionary
methods.
The party Movement for Rights and Freedoms (Dvizhenie za prava i svobodi, DPS)
was founded at the end of 1990. Since that date the undoubted leader of the
party and Bulgarian Turks is Ahmed Dogan. Since the 1991 first democratic
elections the party of DPS has been represented in the parliamentary. Under
Article 1, Section 4 of the Statute of MRF (DPS) the symbols are:
Source: The Statute of DPS on
www.dps.bg/ustav/html . Sometimes (I am myself a witness) the Turkish
abbreviation 'HOH' replaces the Bulgarian 'DPS'.
This image from the
DPS website is a darker blue.
by Ivan S
Željko Heimer, 24 February 2002
DPS
Stoyan Antonov, 4 September 2001