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Chetnik bands also engaged in mass terror, particularly within the NDH, sometimes in order to avenge Ustasha atrocities. Some attacks were directed against Croat villages, but most victims of Chetnik terror were Muslims in Eastern Bosnia, Sandžak and Herzegovina. The worst massacres were conducted in three waves; the first between the Autumn of 1941 and February 1942, in which many villages in Eastern Bosnia and the Foča area in particular were burnt down and civilians killed; the second in August 1942, mainly around Foča, from where many fled to Sarajevo; and the third – and worst of them – was conducted in January and February 1943, in Sandžak and Eastern Bosnia, where villages were attacked and burnt down, and unarmed men, women and children slaughtered. Thousands of Muslims were killed in these campaigns.²⁰ In Serbia, where the Chetniks dominated the resistance from late 1941, they persecuted and executed Partisans and their families as well as supposed Partisan sympathisers.