Ambush near Tanuševci

The Ambush near Tanuševci was an attack by Albanian rebels of the NLA, near the village of Tanuševci on March 4, 2001 during the Insurgency in Macedonia.[1][2][3][4]

Ambush near Tanuševci
Part of the 2001 insurgency in Macedonia
Date4 March 2001
Location
near Tanuševci, Republic of Macedonia
Result NLA victory
Belligerents
National Liberation Army  Macedonia
Commanders and leaders
Xhezair Shaqiri Boris Trajkovski
Units involved
113th Brigade "Ismet Jashari" Army of the Republic of Macedonia
Casualties and losses
3 killed
1 vehicle destroyed

Ambush

Background

On February 26 2001 fighting broke out in the village. By the March 2 2001, 100 Albanian rebels had occupied Tanuševci and the forest around it.[5][6]

Fighting

Albanian insurgents planted landmines on a road leading to Tanuševci. At 7:30 AM an ARM vehicle hit the landmines, killing two soldiers. At 8 AM the rebels opened fire at army forces, killing one soldier.[7]

Aftermath

The European Union condemned the attack.[4] Due to the ambush, Macedonia closed its border with Kosovo.[5][8][9] Macedonian authorities sent around 3,000 to 4,000 men to tackle the rebels, but within days the rebellion spread around nearby villages. Around 500 residents of Tanuševci, mainly women and children, fled into Kosovo.[10]

References
  1. Watch (Organization), Human Rights (2001). Landmine Monitor Report 2001: Toward a Mine-free World. Human Rights Watch. ISBN 978-1-56432-262-3.
  2. Jeffries, Ian (2002-05-16). The Former Yugoslavia at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century: A Guide to the Economies in Transition. Routledge. p. 256. ISBN 978-1-134-46050-2.
  3. Nations, United (1947). Yearbook of the United Nations. Department of Public Information, United Nations. p. 368. ISBN 978-92-1-100897-5.
  4. Bulletin of the European Union. European Commission, Secretariat-General. 2001. p. 86.
  5. Bideleux, Robert; Jeffries, Ian (2007-01-24). The Balkans: A Post-Communist History. Routledge. p. 426. ISBN 978-1-134-58328-7.
  6. Petersen, Roger D. (2011-09-30). Western Intervention in the Balkans: The Strategic Use of Emotion in Conflict. Cambridge University Press. p. 229. ISBN 978-1-139-50330-3.
  7. Škariḱ, Svetomir (2002). Law, Force and Peace: Macedonia and Kosovo. Tri D. p. 626. ISBN 978-9989-677-03-8.
  8. Watch (Organization), Human Rights (2001). Landmine Monitor Report 2001: Toward a Mine-free World. Human Rights Watch. p. 738. ISBN 978-1-56432-262-3.
  9. Boundary and Security Bulletin. International Boundaries Research Unit, Department of Geography, University of Durham. 2001. p. 12.
  10. Roudometof, Victor (2002). Collective Memory, National Identity, and Ethnic Conflict: Greece, Bulgaria, and the Macedonian Question. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 215. ISBN 978-0-275-97648-4.
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