 After the plundering of the town by the Turkish troops and the Albanian bashi-bazouks, the Ottoman authorities circulated a declaration for the inhabitants of Kruševo to sign, stating that the Bulgarian komitadjis had committed the atrocities and looted the town.A few citizens did sign it under administrative pressure.The celebration of the events in Kruševo began during the First World War, when the area, then called Southern Serbia, was 
occupied by Bulgaria.