Hungary breached several points of the agreement on the evacuation and the transfer of territory from the beginning, particularly its commitment to prevent violent acts on territory under its administration. The nationalist Hungarian thinking considered the Czech and Slovak colonists, who obtained their lands in the ethnic Hungarian territories by the nationalist Czechoslovak land reform, as aliens. While some of these colonists left before the Award and others stayed where they were, a number of them were expelled by force and intimidation. Tilkovszky puts the number of expelled families at 647.