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Mara Pojčić (better known as Vojvoda Mara Kučkova her nom de guerre; Serbian Cyrillic: Мара Појчићева-Кучкова) was a vojvode in the Macedonian Struggle from 1896 when she first joined the Serbian Chetnik Organization at a young age. She is remembered as the first female komita leader in the Macedonian liberation movement. She was responsible for illegally transporting arms and ammunition from the Kingdom of Serbia to Old Serbia and Macedonia, then part of the Ottoman Empire with a ćeta band that she commanded. Songs about her are sung to this day among the freedom-loving people of Kosovo and Macedonia, including those who live abroad.
Mara Pojčićeva-Kučkova was born in the village of Kučevište in Skopska Crna Gora. Even in 1896 when Serbs from Old Serbia were just beginning to formulate their revolutionary organization in Skoplje, in their inner circle appeared a woman -- Mara Pojčić. She didn't only volunteer as a helper, but joined as an active Chetnik with a rifle in hand.
Unafraid and to the very end a patriot, Mara was skilled at handling different firearms. There she trained young Chetnik recruits how to use firearms and gave them instructions where best they could be deployed on the field in special military operations behind enemy lines. In that capacity she remained until the arrival of voivodes Kosta Pećanac and Petko Ilić. From then on her role changed. A new role was given to her by David Dimitrijević and Bogdan Radenković. She was assigned to find the best path to transport arms and ammunition from free and independent Serbia to the Chetniks in Skopska municipality, then under the long rule of the Ottoman Empire. Her work came with danger carrying arms and ammunition from Serbia through forests and mountainous regions (hundreds of miles above sea-level) in enemy-infested territory to reach hamlets where friendly locals would take the heavy wooden trunks laden with rifles, pistols, grenades, and ammunition and hide them until the clarion call to action is heard. In this Mara gave more than anyone could ask[1].
Literature
[edit]Her biography recently appeared in a book entitled Srpski junaci kalendar (Calendar of Serbian Heroes) by Pavle Vidaković[2].