Vejce ambush

Vejce ambush
Part of the 2001 insurgency in Macedonia
Date28 April 2001 at about 5:45 p.m
Location
Between Selce and Vejce
Result

NLA victory

  • Anti-Albanian sentiment spreads across the country with Anti-Albanian protests and riots across the city
  • ICTY launches a war crime inquiry in November 2001
Belligerents
 Macedonia National Liberation Army
Commanders and leaders
Robert Petkovski 
Boban Trajkovski 
Igor Kosteski 
Mile Janevski 
Unknown
Units involved
Wolves
Bitola Unit
112th Brigade "Mujdin Aliu"
Strength
8 soldiers
8 police officers
Unknown
Casualties and losses
4 soldiers killed
1 Humvee destroyed
1 Humvee damaged
4 officers killed
1 Lada Niva destroyed
1 Lada Niva damaged
None

The Vejce ambush (Macedonian: Вејце заседа, romanizedVejce zaseda), also known by Macedonians as the Vejce massacre (Macedonian: Масакрот во Вејце, romanizedMasakrot 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]

  1. ^ "8 soldiers slain in ambush near Albanian region". Chicago Tribune. 29 April 2001. Retrieved 5 February 2015.

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