 Since the spring of 1942 in certain military actions of Chetniks and Italians in Lika, northern Dalmatia, Gorski kotar and Kordun, killings are becoming more frequent while villages were looted and burned.The most victims were NOP activists and their families, while population of that area was intimidated, especially Serbs.Momčilo Đujić in 1942 proclamation for the population of Lika and western Bosnia ordered all Chetnik units to ""occupy all villages and towns and take all power into their hands"", threatening to ""destroy all settlements to the ground"" if they resist regardless of whether these settlements are Croatian or Serbian.