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The 2001 insurgency in the Republic of Macedonia was an armed conflict which began when the ethnic Albanian National Liberation Army (NLA) insurgent group, formed from veterans of the Kosovo War and insurgency in the Preševo Valley, attacked Macedonian security forces at the end of January 2001, and ended with the Ohrid Agreement, signed on 13 August of that same year.
The Vejce massacre ((Macedonian: Масакрот во Вејце, romanized: Masakrot vo Vejce), was carried out by the National Liberation Army against a convoy consisting of Macedonian special forces near the village of Vejce during the 2001 insurgency in Macedonia. During the attack, eight members were killed.
While Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Republic of Macedonia interpreted the breakup of Yugoslavia as a definite replacement of the earlier Yugoslav socialist federation with new sovereign equal successor states, newly established FR Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) claimed that it is sole legal successor entitled to the assets as well as automatic memberships in ...
22 August 2001; Operation Essential Harvest, NATO success, NLA disarmed by NATO forces 1 September 2001; Hundreds of ethnic Macedonians, mainly internally displaced people, protested in front of the government building in Skopje against NATO's alleged pro-Albanian involvement and to keep members of parliament from initiating parliamentary procedures for the implementation of the Ohrid agreement.
The Battle of Tetovo (Macedonian: Битка за Тетово, romanized: Bitka za Tetovo, Albanian: Beteja e Tetovës), was the largest engagement during the 2001 insurgency in the Republic of Macedonia, in which Macedonian security forces battled the National Liberation Army (NLA) for control of the city.
On 14 May 2001, the Yugoslav troops captured the city after the UÇPMB attacked again at 2:15 pm. [24] On 21 May 2001, members of the UÇPMB signed the Končulj Agreement, which resulted in the full demilitarization, demobilization, and disarmament of the UÇPMB. [25] [26] The agreement stated that the VJ was allowed to enter the GSZ by 31 May ...
On 26 June 2001, from 3,000 to 5,000 Macedonian protesters, armed with machine guns, broke into the Parliament building and demanded to talk to the President of Macedonia at the time, Boris Trajkovski, shouting "treason", calling for "resignation", [3] and deriding Trajkovski's decision to allow the rebels to take their weapons when they retreated. [5]
Operation MH-1 was a Macedonian military operation with the goal to clear out the NLA rebels from the Skopska Crna Gora region all along the Macedonian border. [ 4 ] [ 11 ] The offensive started on March 28, 2001, and ended the next day.