Kokošinje murders

[1] Per Bulgarian sources on July 11, 1904, the chetas of Atanas Babata, Slaveyko Arsov and Stoyan Donski were surrounded by a large Turkish troops near the village of Gorno Gjugjantsi.

Subsequently, Atanas Babata received information that the chetas were found after a betrayal by [sic] Serbomans from the village in the area called Kokošinje and he decided to exact revenge.

[5] Babata entered the house, and Prota Aleksić's servant Mihajlo Miladinović hid on the attic, listening to the shouting and hearing that daskal Jovan Dovezenski had gathered a band in Serbia.

[10] The next day, Babata and his whole band returned, and he held feral speeches in the inn by the school, in front of all villagers, as Dane Stojanović, too, had refused renouncing his Serbian identity.

[10] When in March 1904, Bulgarians killed his godfather Atanas Stojiljković in his birthvillage of Dovezance, Dovezenski closed his school and went to Vranje, where he demanded a permit to form a Chetnik band.

[10] While descending the Pčinja, they learnt of the Kokošinje massacre, which the whole Kratovo and Kumanovo regions uttered Babata's name, but also heard the name of Jordan Spasev, a Bulgarian reserve soldier.