 Resistance by IMRO was met with further terror, which included the formation in 1922 of the Association against Bulgarian Bandits led by Pećanac and Ilija Trifunović-Lune, based out of Štip in eastern Macedonia.This organisation quickly garnered a reputation for indiscriminate terrorisation of the Macedonian populace.Pećanac and his Chetniks were also active in fighting those resisting the Serb and Montenegrin colonisation of Kosovo.