 Not long after this, Popovac was assassinated.At beginning of 1943 in Montenegro and the Italian zone of the NDH exist between 40,000 and 50,000 Chetniks.In the German zone of NDH exist about 10,000 of Bosnian Chetniks who had agreements with the Croatian collaborator authorities while number of rebel Chetniks from Bosnia who fought against the Croatian government was much smaller.In 1943, the Chetniks moderated their policies towards the Muslims to some extent, in order to assist them to enlist Muslims into their ranks.