Milovan Dilas about "chetniks," 1942: "The Chetniks, on the bridges over the Drina, slaughtered one by one, hundreds and thousands of Muslims – men, women, and children – who were bound together with wire. Under the leadership of the London-based exile government and Draža Mihailović in the country, they competed with the Ustaše in crimes, and surpassed them in treachery. In Serbia, they went after the Partisans as if on a game hunt, slaughtering and killing the dearest sons of the Serbian people, handing them over to the Germans. They tore the living flesh off Bata Janković in Čačak and stuffed it into his mouth. They slaughtered hundreds, thousands of freedom fighters in Montenegro and Herzegovina. They set about destroying entire young generations of Serbian combatants and the best people's warriors, the heart of the people's struggle. They handed over the children of freedom fighters from Montenegro to the hands of Italian fascists to mutilate and deform their young souls. In Herzegovina, they rape Partisan women, break the old bones of Partisan fathers and mothers, and level entire villages that have risen in the fight for freedom. There is no treachery, no baseness, no crime that the Chetnik would shy away from, there is no treachery and crime that the Chetnik exile 'government' would not reward and decorate with stars. Within it, the Great Serbian beast has awakened, which has no measure or end in treachery and crime, and which, for class reasons, smothers – in a sea of blood – the struggle of its own people in order to secure its bloody hegemonic rule in the future. The Chetnik – that is the most insidious, dirtiest traitor and criminal, that is the gravedigger of the Serbian people and all the peoples of Yugoslavia. The Chetniks and Ustaše, they are neither Serbs, nor Croats, nor humans."