site.btaBosilegrad Pays Traditional Tribute to Fallen Bulgarian Officers

Representatives of the cultural information centre "Bosilegrad", the GLAS Association, local citizens and guests from Kyustendil and Dupnitsa laid flowers on June 28 at the memorial plaques of the five fallen Bulgarian officers in the cemetery park of Bosilegrad.

Once again the memory of the five Bulgarian officers captured and shot in Bosilegrad on June 28, 1913 was commemorated. Colonel Ilarion Tanev from Veliko Tarnovo, Lieutenant Hristo Hristov from Haskovo, Lieutenant Stanislav Popov from Parvomay, Lieutenant Stefan Kotev from Sevlievo and Lieutenant Assen Kostadinov from Sofia were captured and shot in the locality "Vodenitsi", one kilometre from Bosilegrad.

This crime was carried out on the orders of the Serbian Captain Arsenijevic, who dared to break international military conventions.

A few days later, on July 2, a specially appointed commission from Kyustendil arrived in Bosilegrad to exhume the bodies, made an inspection and a report, and gave orders that the officers be buried in the local cemetery.

Their monuments lasted until the late 1970s, when they were desecrated and destroyed. The current memorial plaques of the five killed Bulgarian officers were restored on the idea of the cultural information centre "Bosilegrad" and with the efforts of a patriotic Bulgarian from Bosilegrad, Dimitar Dimitrov - Treperski.