Rizo Rizov

Rizov was a teacher in his hometown of Veles.^[8] He was a member of the district committee of the IMARO. In 1904 he was shot by a member of the Supreme Macedonian-Adrianople Committee.^[9][10][11]

During the Balkan Wars, he and other former IMARO revolutionaries, such as Petar Poparsov and Alekso Martulkov, met with Dimitrija Čupovski, who proposed to send a delegation to London conference, which would demand autonomy for Macedonia.^{[12][13][14][15]}

Rizov went to Thessaloniki with the hope of gaining the support of the IMARO.^[16] He met with Pavel Shatev and Yordan Ivanov, who rejected this idea.^[17]

On 9 March 1919, while in Sofia, he signed the "Appeal to the Macedonian population and to the émigré population in Bulgaria", issued by the Provisional representation of the former United Internal Revolutionary Organization.^[18]

In 1925, alongside other IMRO members, Rizov participated in Vienna in the founding conference of IMRO (United).^[19][20] He became a member of the Central Committee of the organization.^[21][22]

At the end of 1930, due to illness, he left Vienna and went to the Soviet Union. In 1945, he moved to the newly found Yugoslav People's Republic of Macedonia, where he died in 1950.^[23]