Macedonian Air Force bombs predominantly Albanian villages around Tetovo
Anti-Albanian sentiment spread across Prilep with Anti-Albanian protests and riots across the city
Peace negotiations continue, eventually leading to the Ohrid Agreement
Belligerents
National Liberation Army Albanian National Army[1]
Macedonian army
Commanders and leaders
Unknown Unknown
Nane Naumoski † Sašo Kitanoski †
Units involved
Brigade 112 "Mujdin Aliu"
Military Reserve Force (Prilep garrison)[2]
Strength
80+ militants[3]
120 reservists[2] 2 unarmed MI-17 Helicopters[4]
Casualties and losses
2 killed[5] 10 wounded[6] None
10 killed 3 wounded 1 truck destroyed 1 bus destroyed
Site of the ambush
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Location within North Macedonia
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Insurgencies in North Macedonia
2001 insurgency
Tearce
Tanuševci 1
Brest
Tanuševci 2
Tanuševci 3
Tetovo
MH
MH-1
MH-2
Matejče
Slupčane
Vejce
Lisec
Vaksince
Gajre
Skopje
Karpalak
Aračinovo
Nikuštak
Raduša
Ljuboten
Essential Harvest
Ohrid Agreement
Treboš
2004 - 2005
Kondovo crisis Vratnica Attack
2007
Mountain Storm
2010
Blace bunker raid
Raduša shootout
2012
Smilkovci
2014
Skopje
2015
Gošince
Kumanovo
The Karpalak ambush (Macedonian: Заседа кај Карпалак; Albanian: Pritë në Karpalak), referred to by Macedonians as the Karpalak massacre (Macedonian: Масакр кај Карпалак),[2] was an attack carried out by the National Liberation Army (NLA) against a convoy of the Army of the Republic of Macedonia (ARM) near the village of Grupčin on 8 August 2001 during the 2001 insurgency in Macedonia. Ten members of the ARM's Military Reserve Force, including two officers, were killed at Karpalak and three others were wounded. The ambush was the single deadliest incident of the conflict. It was speculated that the ambush was carried out in retaliation for a Macedonian police raid in Skopje, the day before in which five NLA insurgents were killed.
In the years following the ambush, the Macedonian government has commissioned several plaques commemorating the fallen reservists, which have become the frequent target of vandals. This has prompted complaints from veterans' organizations that the government has not done enough to ensure the reservists are properly commemorated.
^"Macedonia - defense: Buckovski: "Let tragedy be the beginning of the end of the war"". Relief.web. 10 August 2001. Archived from the original on 26 June 2022. 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.
^ abcBačikj, Mirko (8 August 2018). "17 години Карпалак – тага и непребол за 10-те загинати бранители на Македонија" [17 Years Since Karpalak: Sorrow and Grief for 10 Fallen Defenders of Macedonia]. Магазин (in Macedonian). Archived from the original on 27 November 2021. Retrieved 27 November 2021.
^"Пилоти со невооружени хеликоптери спасиле тројца војници". time.mk. Retrieved 21 February 2024.
^"Пилоти со невооружени хеликоптери спасиле тројца војници". Дневник. 9 August 2001. Retrieved 13 July 2016.
^"Пилоти со невооружени хеликоптери спасиле тројца војници". Дневник. 9 August 2001. Retrieved 13 July 2016.
^"Пилоти со невооружени хеликоптери спасиле тројца војници". Дневник. 9 August 2001. Retrieved 13 July 2016.
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