almost as if its commanders knew what was expected of them." Scholar Jovan Byford holds the view that the Chetnik violence waged against Muslim civilians in eastern Bosnia in 1942 and 1943 amounted to genocide. While Byford notes that Chetnik crimes against Muslims was "more localized and smaller in scale" when compared with Ustasha violence against Serbs, "its aims, calculated cruelty, and devastating impact on the victim community were comparable." See also List of mass executions and massacres in Yugoslavia during World War II List of genocides by death toll Footnotes References Books Journals Websites Extract from Genocide and Resistance in Hitler’s Bosnia: The Partisans and the Chetniks, 1941-1943, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2006 (pp. 156–162). War crimes Ethnic cleansing in Europe Yugoslavia in World War II Anti-Croat sentiment Persecution of Muslims Human rights abuses Genocides in Europe