Near the Rozhensky Monastery, near Melnik, with the detachment of the Neurokop voivode Stoyan Filipov, Yane Sandanski fell into an ambush and was killed .
Yane Sandanski was born on May 18, 1872 in the village of Vlahi, Blagoevgrad region. After the defeat of the Kresna-Razlozh uprising in 1878-1879, his parents moved to Dupnitsa and he received his primary education there. After that, he worked as a solicitor, civil servant, etc., while at the same time he did not stop educating himself, reports the website InfoBulgaria.
He became involved in the national liberation struggle of the Bulgarians from Macedonia at the end of the 90s of the 19th century. He traveled to Macedonia several times with his troops in order to help speed up the process of building revolutionary committees in the various settlements. Along with this, he is also making efforts to procure weapons and funds for the organization. One of his most daring actions in this direction is the famous "Miss Stone" affair. On August 21, 1901, on the road between Bansko and Gorna Jumaya, Elena Stone and her companion, Katerina Tsilka, were kidnapped. The kidnappers demanded a ransom from Turkey, which, due to pressure from the Great Powers, they received. With the 14,500 gold Turkish liras received on January 18, 1902, the purchase of weapons is planned.
Jane Sandanski did not approve of the decision made by the Thessaloniki Congress for an uprising in Macedonia and Odrin in the spring of 1903. However, he did not oppose and was actively involved in the preparation of the Ilinden-Preobrazhensky uprising of 1903.
After the death of Gotse Delchev, Yane Sandanski established himself as one of the leaders of the left in the Internal Macedonian-Edirne Revolutionary Organization. Thanks to his efforts, despite the pogrom of the uprising, in the next few years, this trend took over the organization. In the absence of Hr. Matov and Dr. Tatarchev during the organization's Rila Congress in 1905, the left tried to impose its views on the decisions made by the congress and the new statute adopted by it. Marxists D. Khadzhidimov and N. Kharlakov joined the group of the Sersky Revolutionary District and influenced Sandanski's behavior. The leftists insist on over-nationality and decentralization in the Organization.
In December 1906, a congress of the VMRO was convened, at which Sandanski and his supporters initiated the split in the Organization. In his fight against the right, Sandanski went to extremes and in November 1907 ordered the murder of two of its leaders - Ivan Garvanov and Boris Sarafov. This marks the beginning of the fratricidal war between the two currents, which did not subside even after the end of the First World War 1914-1918.
At the Kyustendil Congress of March 1908, Yane Sandanski was expelled from the organization and sentenced to death. After the Young Turk Revolution in June 1908, Sandanski also came out of illegality and in many places the weapon entrusted to him was handed over to the authorities. After only two years, the Young Turks began a large-scale campaign to destroy the VMRO. At that time, Sandanski continued to receive money from the Turks every month.
He became one of the founders and leaders of the People's Federal Party, which stood behind the idea of an independent Macedonia within a South Slavic federation.
During the Balkan War, he supported the advance of the Bulgarian troops. Sandanski was killed on April 22, 1915 in Pirin, Baltata locality, in an ambush by the regional neurocop company of the Military Intelligence Service.