[6] Between 1915 and 1918, Vardar Macedonia which after the Balkan Wars (1912-1913) was turned into a Serbian province called South Serbia, was under Bulgarian occupation.

[7] In 1926, she divorced, and under the influence of her brother Boris, also a Bulgarian officer, Buneva joined the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO).

Later on direct order by the leader of the IMRO, Ivan Mihaylov, she was trained in Sofia for fulfilling of a future terrorist actions.

Prelić was instrumental in arrests of young local students, members of Macedonian Youth Secret Revolutionary Organization.

The first Macedonian Patriotic Organization ladies auxiliary branch was created in Toronto in 1928 and named after Mara Buneva.

[16] During the Second World War Bulgaria annexed Vardar Macedonia and on the place of the death of Mara Buneva a commemoration plate was mounted.

Since the beginning of the 2000s, almost every year on the day of her death, Bulgarians from North Macedonia and Bulgaria, particularly VMRO-BND activists, have begun illegally[18] mounting new commemoration plates.

[20] Former Macedonian Prime Minister Ljubčo Georgievski claims that to be against Buneva means, not to have adequate knowledge of the history, and to defend the Serbian chauvinism.