Global Information2001 insurgency in Macedonia information
| 2001 insurgency in Macedonia | |||||||
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| Part of the Yugoslav Wars | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 National Liberation Army Albanian National Army[1] |
 Republic of Macedonia | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Ali Ahmeti Gëzim Ostreni Xhezair Shaqiri Avdil Jakupi Jakup Asipi Jetullah Qarri Hajrulla Misini |
Boris Trajkovski Pande Petrovski Ljubčo Georgievski Jovan Andrevski Ljube Boškoski Dosta Dimovska Vlado Bučkovski Ljuben Paunovski | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
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2,000–3,000[2] (beginning of the war) 6,000 – 7,000 militants[3] Unknown |
20,000 soldiers and policemen[4] 60 T-55 tanks[5] 4 Su-25 aircraft[6] 4 Mi-24[7][8][9][10][11] | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
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64–105 militants killed[12][13][14][15][16] |
63–77 soldiers and policemen killed[17][15][18] 1 tank and 2 APCs captured[19] 1 tank and 1 APC destroyed[20] 1 Mi-17 crashed | ||||||
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90 civilians killed
150–250 total dead and 1,000 total casualties[21]  Two EU monitors killed[24] | |||||||
The 2001 insurgency in 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. There were also claims that the NLA ultimately wished to see Albanian-majority areas secede from the country,[25] though high-ranking members of the group have denied this.[26] The conflict lasted throughout most of the year, although overall casualties remained limited to several dozen individuals on either side, according to sources from both sides of the conflict. With it, the Yugoslav Wars had reached the Republic of Macedonia which had achieved peaceful independence from Yugoslavia in 1991.
- ^ "Macedonia – defense: Buckovski: "Let tragedy be the beginning of the end of the war"". Relief.web. 10 August 2001. Retrieved 26 June 2022.
"ANA" CLAIMS RESPONSIBILITY FOR KILLING OF TEN MACEDONIAN SOLDIERS Skopje, August 10 – A new armed group of ethnic Albanians on Thursday claimed responsibility for the killing of ten Macedonian army reservists in a highway ambush a day earlier. The "Albanian National Army" (AKSH) e-mailed a statement to several media in the region, on Albanian-language, saying a combined unit of its fighters and of the so-called National Liberation Army (NLA) carried the attack out "in revenge" for the killing of five NLA members by Macedonian security forces.
.}} - ^ "Зошто Македонија се чувствува поразена од војната во 2001?!". МКД.мк (in Macedonian). Retrieved 26 November 2022.
- ^ Pettifer, James (2004). "The 2001 Conflict in FYROM-Reflections" (PDF). Defence Academy of the United Kingdom: 20.
- ^ "Svedostva 2001 | PDF". Scribd. Archived from the original on 23 January 2023. Retrieved 28 July 2023.
- ^ Petrovski, Pande. "Testimonials-2001.pdf" (PDF). Retrieved 4 September 2022.
They sent the one tank along the way from the south to the north of the village and to the mosque. About 30 to 40 meters behind the tank they filled bags with sand and made shelters, in other words they built a check point. Then, because supposedly there were terrorists in the mosque, they started to act. in this action a police officer hit the tank with a weapon "zolia" - certainly not intentionally. The driver of the tank was wounded and the tank was set ablaze in front of the mosque
- ^ Gordon and Dawes 2004, p. 99.
- ^ Jeffries, Ian (16 May 2002). The Former Yugoslavia at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century: A Guide to the Economies in Transition. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-134-46050-2.
'Two Mi-24 helicopters flown by Ukrainian pilots ... blasted the hillside [above Tetovo] with rockets' The helicopters [were] a gift from Ukraine'
- ^ Petersen, Roger D. (30 September 2011). Western Intervention in the Balkans: The Strategic Use of Emotion in Conflict. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-139-50330-3.
- ^ "Історія однієї дружби. Як Україна боролася за єдність Північної Македонії". BBC News Україна (in Ukrainian). 7 February 2021. Retrieved 13 July 2023.
- ^ Михаил Жирохов, Александр Заблотский. Воздушная война в Югославии. Часть 3 // Уголок неба : авиационная энциклопедия. — 2004.
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- ^ "Dëshmorët e Ushtrisë Çlirimtare Kombëtare". tanusha2001. Archived from the original on 8 November 2017. Retrieved 27 August 2023.
- ^ "Ja kush janë dëshmorët e Luftës së Maqedonisë në vitin 2001, nga Maqedonia, Kosova e Shqipëria (Emrat) • LIDERI". 18 March 2021.
- ^ a b "20 Years On Armed Conflicts Endures In North Macedonia". balkaninsight.com. 1 January 2021.
- ^ Fatlum Akifi. "Поранешните војници на ОНА револтирани за својата состојба". ALSATM (in Macedonian). Archived from the original on 6 June 2016. Retrieved 23 June 2022.
За време на конфликтот освен уништувањето на приватниот имот за време на војната загинаа околy 105 припадници на ОНА / In addition to the destruction of private property during the war, about 105 NLA members were killed during the conflict
- ^ "VEST – Macedonian daily newspaper". 8 August 2014. Archived from the original on 8 August 2014. Retrieved 25 February 2023.
- ^ "What Do the Casualties of War Amount to?". AIMS Press. 30 December 2001.
- ^ "British soldier killed in Macedonia". 27 August 2001.
- ^ "CNN.com - Battle for Tetovo rages - August 9, 2001". edition.cnn.com. Retrieved 17 July 2023.
- ^ a b Phillips, John (2004). Macedonia: Warlords And Rebels in the Balkans. Yale University Press. p. 161. ISBN 0-300-10268-2.
- ^ Uppsala Conflict Data Program, Macedonia, FYR: government (entire conflict), viewed 3 May 2013 Archived 5 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "CNN.com - UK soldier killed in Macedonia - August 27, 2001". edition.cnn.com. Retrieved 11 February 2024.
- ^ "EU monitors killed in Macedonia". The Guardian. 20 July 2001. Retrieved 19 October 2013.
- ^ "Macedonia's 'Liberation' Army". Zurich: World Press Review. 20 June 2001. Retrieved 18 April 2012.
- ^ "Who are the rebels?". BBC News. 20 March 2001.