site.btaParties in Parliament Read Declarations on St Nedelya Church Bombing Centennial

Political parties in Parliament read declarations here on Wednesday on the 100th anniversary of the St Nedelya Church bombing. 

GERB-UDF MP Stefan Marinov said that it is a duty of all Bulgarian democrats, anti-communists, and those who hold human life as the highest value is to preserve the memory of this tragic date, to speak the truth about it, and not to let it be forgotten.

“We bow our heads today before the innocent victims of the attack, carried out by communist terrorists, who blew up the church on Holy Thursday, April 16, 1925,” the declaration reads.

Continue the Change - Democratic Bulgaria (CC-DB) coalition stated that “the darkness of Soviet Russia, revived by the criminal regime in the Kremlin, continues to kill Orthodox Christians - the victims of the Russian attack in the Ukrainian city of Sumy.”

MP Atanas Atanasov, leader of Democrats for Strong Bulgaria, on behalf of the CC-DB parliamentary group said that “this tragic event, which we are marking today, was organized and carried out by the Military Organization of the Bulgarian Communist Party. This has been established indisputably from the documentation, confessions and interrogations, it was logistically supported by the Comintern.” 

BSP - United Left MP Galin Durev said that the loss of human life could always be an occasion for social reconciliation. "We have repeatedly urged from this rostrum that we should not and must not invoke the blood of those killed a hundred years ago in connection with our current political aims and objectives," said Durev, reading the declaration in the debating chamber.

"All of us assess this historical event as one of the most tragic events in Bulgarian history, but we should still mention that it took place in a specific historical context. In that period Bulgaria was gripped by a bloody civil war and we should not deny this fact of history," the lawmaker went on to say.