“We are a mixture of faiths and nationalities. Among us are Bulgarians and Albanians, Serbs and Macedonians. We have even a Jew with us. But we are no bandits. You shall know very soon why you are captured.”

—  Yane Sandanski

Yane Sandanski (1901), in: Note by Katerina Tsilka, cited in: Teresa Carpenter. The Miss Stone Affair: America's First Modern Hostage Crisis https://books.google.nl/books?id=az0Skf467RwC&pg=PA40, 2003. p. 40-41
Context: Yane Sandanski was speaking to Miss Stone and Katerina Tsilka, the two hostages in the Miss Stone Affair.

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