Mencha Karnicheva

Melpomena Dimitrova Karnicheva or Krničeva (Bulgarian: Мелпомена Димитрова Кърничева; Macedonian: Мелпомена Димитрова Крничева 16 March 1900 – 1964),[1] popularly known as Mencha (Менча), was a Bulgarophile Aromanian revolutionary and terrorist[2] of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO).

She gradually got to be disappointed by his leftist views that advocated Comintern ties and collaboration with the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, acts she believed would be fatal to the Bulgarian population of Macedonia, instead proposing an independent Aromanian state based on the Batllist ideology.

Karnicheva reoriented to IMRO's right wing; she joined the organisation on 15 March 1924 and took an independent decision to assassinate Panitsa, who was alleged by IMRO to have ordered the assassinations of Boris Sarafov and Ivan Garvanov and to have served foreign interests.

Following her acquittal in court in Yugoslavia over her involvement in the IMRO, on 25 December 1926 Karnicheva returned to Bulgaria and married IMRO leader Ivan (Vanche) Mihailov,[8] with whom she lived in exile in Turkey, Poland and Hungary after 1934.

In May 1941 they settled in Zagreb, capital of the Nazi Germany puppet Independent State of Croatia; in 1944,[9] they briefly lived in German-occupied Skopje.