2001 Skopje police raid

Skopje police raid
Part of the 2001 insurgency in Macedonia
Date7 August 2001
Location
Skopje, Macedonia
Result Macedonian police victory[1][2][3]
Belligerents
 Macedonia National Liberation Army
Commanders and leaders
Ljube Boškoski Lefter Koxhaj †[1]
Units involved
Macedonian police Skanderbeg special unit[4]
Strength
200+ policemen[5] Unknown
Casualties and losses
None[6] 5 killed[7][3]
30 arrested[8][3]
4 detained

During the 2001 insurgency in Macedonia, a raid was conducted by the Macedonian police against ethnic Albanian rebels in a suburb of Skopje on 7 August. The police killed the rebel group and captured their weapon supplies.

  1. ^ a b "Macedonia rebels killed in raid". CNN. 7 August 2001. SKOPJE, Macedonia -- Five ethnic Albanian rebels have been killed in a police raid to seize illegal weapons, Interior Minister Ljube Boskovski has said.
  2. ^ "Macedonia Police Kill Five Rebels in Skopje". Tehran Times. 8 August 2001. Retrieved 15 October 2022. SKOPJE -- Macedonian police killed five alleged ethnic Albanian rebels in a raid on a house in Skopje on Tuesday in a new blow to hopes of a peaceful end to a five-month guerrilla rebellion. "A terrorist group was preparing an attack on Skopje and the police carried out an operation early this morning," Minister Ljube Boskovski told Reuters.
  3. ^ a b c "Дали Охридскиот договор спречи граѓанска војна?". Civil Media (in Macedonian). 13 August 2019.
  4. ^ M, Xh (2022-08-07). "21 vite nga rënia e komandant Telit, djali: Bashkë me shokët shkruat historinë". Agjencia Zhurnal.mk. (in Albanian). Retrieved 2023-06-20.
  5. ^ "Five rebels shot dead by police in Skopje as peace edges closer". The Independent. 8 August 2001. Retrieved 15 September 2023.
  6. ^ RUBIN, ALISSA J. RUBIN. "Macedonian Police Kill 5 Separatists in Raid". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 16 October 2022. There were no police injuries reported in the incident, the first of its kind in Skopje since the current conflict erupted in February.
  7. ^ "Macedonian Police Kill 5 Albanian Rebels". NY Times. Associated Press. 8 August 2001. Retrieved 15 October 2022. Police officers killed five Macedonian Albanian rebels today and seized illegal weapons in a raid that the interior minister said was intended to avert an attack on the capital, Skopje.
  8. ^ "Macedonia rebels killed in raid". CNN. Retrieved 15 October 2022. A total of 30 people had been arrested in the police crackdown, Boskovski said.