 About 500 Muslims , mostly women , children and the elderly , were killed in Goražde in March , and several women were raped . An estimated 10 @,@ 000 people were killed in the anti @-@ Muslim operations commanded by Đurišić between January and February 1943 . The casualty rate would have been higher if many Muslims had not already fled the area — most to Sarajevo — when the February action began . Chetnik casualties during the operations were reported as 36 killed and 58 wounded . The orders for the " cleansing " operation stated that the Chetniks should kill all Muslim fighters , communists and Ustaše , but that they should not kill women and children . According to Pajović , these instructions were included to ensure there was no written evidence for the killing of non @-@ combatants . On 8 February , one Chetnik commander made a notation on his copy of written orders issued by Đurišić that the detachments had received additional orders to kill all Muslims they encountered . On 10 February , the commander of the Pljevlja Chetnik Brigade told one of his battalion commanders that he was to kill everyone in accordance with the orders of their highest commanders . According to Tomasevich , despite Chetnik claims that this and previous " cleansing actions " were countermeasures against aggressive Muslim activities , all circumstances point to it being Đurišić 's partial achievement of Mihailović 's previous directive to clear the Sandžak of Muslims . 
