The Vejce ambush (Macedonian: Вејце заседа, romanized: Vejce zaseda), also known by Macedonians as the Vejce massacre (Macedonian: Масакрот во Вејце, romanized: Masakrot vo Vejce), was an ambush carried out by the National Liberation Army against a Special Operations Regiment convoy near the village of Vejce during the 2001 insurgency in Macedonia. During the attack, eight soldiers were killed.[1]
^"8 soldiers slain in ambush near Albanian region". Chicago Tribune. 29 April 2001. Retrieved 5 February 2015.
The Vejceambush (Macedonian: Вејце заседа, romanized: Vejce zaseda), also known by Macedonians as the Vejce massacre (Macedonian: Масакрот во Вејце, romanized: Masakrot...
Macedonia, on the way between Selce and Vejce, rebels of the paramilitary Albanian National Liberation Army ambushed the Macedonian armed forces, which resulted...
police patrol near Vejce in the Tetovo region killing eight, and a week before in the same region in Lisec a Macedonian patrol was ambushed leaving one injured...
enough to memorialize the reservists. Vejceambush, a similar incident that took place in April 2001 Treboš ambush, an attack that occurred after the insurgency...
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officers were ambushed and killed in the village of Treboš. Operation Essential Harvest Operation MH-2 Operation Vaksince Vejceambush Karpalak ambush Prizren...
insurgents. The Macedonian government also claimed the Vejceambush, in which Albanian insurgents ambushed and killed eight Macedonian soldiers, to be a war...
Tito, and two Russian cosmonauts. Vejceambush: Eight Macedonian soldiers are killed in an ambush by the NLA near Vejce, a village in the Šar Mountains...
According to Macedonian army officials, three of the soldiers died during an ambush as they were escorting medics to help six wounded men (consisting of three...
Scarecrow Press. p.287. ISBN 0810855658 "Ten Macedonian troops die in ambush". TheGuardian.com. 9 August 2001. "Eight ARM reservists killed near Ljubotenski...
Ljubotenski Bacila ambush". Republika. 10 August 2022. Retrieved 18 December 2022. "Macedonia marks 21 years since the Ljubotenski Bacila ambush". Republika...
Macedonian army convoy near Tetovo in what would become known as Karpalak ambush, supposedly as retaliation for the 5 Albanians killed by the police during...
of Brest on 10 March 2001 during the insurgency in Macedonia. the NLA ambushed a Macedonian convoy, after they were defeated and forced to withdraw by...
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