Ambush near Tanuševci explained

Conflict:	Ambush near Tanuševci
Place:	Near Tanuševci, Macedonia
Date:	March 4, 2001
Combatant1:	National Liberation Army
Result:	NLA victory
Commander1:	Unknown
Commander2:	Kirčo Dimitrov^[1]
Strength1:	Unknown
Strength2:	Unknown^[2]
Units1:	Unknown
Units2:	Macedonian army
Casualties1:	None
Casualties2:	3 killed 1 vehicle destroyed
Partof:	the 2001 insurgency in Macedonia

On March 4, 2001, Albanian rebels of the NLA, performed an ambush near the village of Tanuševci during the Insurgency in Macedonia.^{[3] [4] [5] [6]}

Background

See main article: article and Battle of Tanuševci. On February 17, 2001, fighting broke out in the village. By March 1, 100 Albanian rebels had occupied Tanuševci.^{[7] [8]}

Ambush

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 on military forces, killing one soldier.^[9]

Aftermath

The European Union condemned the attack. Due to the ambush, Macedonia closed its border with Kosovo.^[10] 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.^[11]

Notes and References

1. Web site: 4 March 2020. Во Виница одбележана 19-годишнината од загинувањето на армискиот капетан Кирчо Димитриов. A1on.mk. 11 December 2023. mk.
2. Book: Škariḱ, Svetomir . Law, Force and Peace: Macedonia and Kosovo . 2002 . Tri D . 978-9989-677-03-8 . 626 . en.
3. Book: Watch (Organization), Human Rights . Landmine Monitor Report 2001: Toward a Mine-free World . 2001 . Human Rights Watch . 978-1-56432-262-3 . en.
4. Book: Jeffries, Ian . The Former Yugoslavia at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century: A Guide to the Economies in Transition . 2002-05-16 . Routledge . 978-1-134-46050-2 . 256 . en.
5. Book: Nations, United . Yearbook of the United Nations . 1947 . Department of Public Information, United Nations . 978-92-1-100897-5 . 368 . en.
6. Book: Bulletin of the European Union . 2001 . European Commission, Secretariat-General . 86 . en.
7. Book: Bideleux . Robert . The Balkans: A Post-Communist History . Jeffries . Ian . 2007-01-24 . Routledge . 978-1-134-58328-7 . 426 . en.
8. Book: Petersen, Roger D. . Western Intervention in the Balkans: The Strategic Use of Emotion in Conflict . 2011-09-30 . Cambridge University Press . 978-1-139-50330-3 . 229 . en.
9. Book: Škariḱ, Svetomir . Law, Force and Peace: Macedonia and Kosovo . 2002 . Tri D . 978-9989-677-03-8 . 626 . en.
10. Book: Watch (Organization), Human Rights . Landmine Monitor Report 2001: Toward a Mine-free World . 2001 . Human Rights Watch . 978-1-56432-262-3 . 738 . en.
11. Book: Roudometof, Victor . Collective Memory, National Identity, and Ethnic Conflict: Greece, Bulgaria, and the Macedonian Question . 2002 . Greenwood Publishing Group . 978-0-275-97648-4 . 215 . en.