 "I knew that the country would not survive", Đujić explained, "because nobody can put Serbs and Croats in the same bag".In late 1934, he met with Kosta Pećanac, the head of the interwar Chetnik Association, and formed eleven Chetnik bands in the vicinity of the town.Chetnik insurgency did not have a long tradition in Dalmatia, and only emerged in the 1930s.