Association against Bulgarian Bandits
The Association against Bulgarian Bandits () was a paramilitary organization based in Štip, then in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. Background During World War I the Serbian Army and Chetnik movement were in conflict with the Bulgarian Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO) and Army, which occupied most of Serbia and Macedonia. Bands of Chetniks organized the Toplica uprising, which was quickly crushed by the Bulgarian soldiers and IMRO chetas. The post-war Treaty of Neuilly denied Bulgaria what it felt was its share of Macedonia and Pomoravlje. As result the Bulgarian state fell in a heavy situation having been forced to return the territories it briefly occupied to Serbia, Greece and Romania, with reparations imposed on it to pay to those countries. In the new formed Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, the Chetnik movement ceased functioning as a guerrilla force. However, the IMRO began soon sending armed bands from Bulgaria into Serbian part of Macedonia to assassinate officials and stir up the spirit of the Bulgarian part of the local population. Also in 1921 Bulgarians from Western Outlands created an organisation named Internal Western Outland Revolutionary Organisation (IWORO), which operated in the areas of Tsaribrod and Bosilegrad, ceded