After the war, Babunski and his 250-strong force helped Serb authorities suppress Bulgarian resistance in the Macedonian towns of Bitola and Tikveš, committing several atrocities in the process.

Jovan Stojković was born in the village of Martolci in present-day central North Macedonia, at the foot of Mount Babuna, near Veles, on 25 December 1878.

[4] In 1905, Babunski's brother and nephew were killed by the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (Bulgarian: Вътрешна Македонска Революционна Организация; IMRO).

[6] Babunski's participation in the struggle against the Ottomans and Bulgarians came at a great personal cost; his wife was tortured to disclose his whereabouts and one of his children was killed.

Babunski fought with the Royal Serbian Army during the First Balkan War and was wounded in a skirmish with Ottoman Turkish forces in the village of Strevica while serving under commander Vojin Popović.

[10] The unit suffered its first casualties when Austro-Hungarian river monitors shelled Belgrade on the night of 28 July 1914, killing a 16-year-old Chetnik volunteer named Dušan Đonović, the first victim of the war.

[13] That autumn Babunski and his Chetniks were assigned to the town of Kačanik, where they joined other Serbian forces in fighting a Bulgarian division that they managed to hold to a standstill for nearly a month despite suffering heavy losses.

[19] In 1917, French General Louis Franchet d'Espèrey awarded Babunski a medal following the capture of two German midget submarines and their crews by him and his men.

[23] Babunski's force of 250 men helped the authorities suppress resistance in the towns of Bitola and Tikveš,[24] targeting locals sympathetic to the Bulgarian komitas, and committing several atrocities in the process.

[27] A monument dedicated to him was constructed in Veles in 1924, but was destroyed by Bulgarian occupational authorities during World War II, when Macedonia was annexed by Bulgaria following Yugoslavia's dismemberment by the Axis.