 By mid-1993, they suffered over a hundred bombings, kidnappings, expulsions, and shootings.The SPO threatened Muslims with expulsion when reacting to requests for autonomy in Sandžak.On 15 May 1993, Šešelj proclaimed eighteen (18) Chetnik fighters as vojvodas, naming towns that were cleansed of non-Serbs in their citation, and they were blessed by an Orthodox priest afterwards.