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The Lipkovo crisis (Macedonian: Липковска криза, Albanian: Kriza e Likovës) was a crisis involving Macedonian security forces and Albanian insurgents from the National Liberation Army (NLA). [5] [6] [7] During the crisis, the NLA captured the Lipkovo dam, which caused a 12-day-long water crisis for the neighboring town of Kumanova.
The 2001 insurgency in the Republic of Macedonia was an armed conflict which began when the ethnic Albanian National Liberation Army (NLA) insurgent group, formed from veterans of the Kosovo War and Insurgency in the Preševo Valley, attacked Macedonian security forces at the end of January 2001, and ended with the Ohrid Agreement, signed on 13 August of that same year.
6 June 2001; Anti-Muslim riots in Bitola with ethnic Macedonian crowds setting homes and shops on fire, desecrated Muslim graves and defaced a mosque with swastikas and made anti-Albanian graffiti containing "Death to the Šiptars." [3] 12–25 June 2001; Aračinovo crisis, ceasefire. [20] 20 June–13 August 2001; Battle of Raduša, ceasefire.
Lipkovo was a central strategic village during the 2001 insurgency in Macedonia between the Albanian NLA and the Macedonian Army. The Lipkovo crisis took place here during the conflict, which was an NLA victory. Today, it has a dam which supplies water and electricity to the Kumanovo region.
The Macedonian-Albanian conflict in 2001 In 2001, Vaksince was one of the scenes of the Albanian Uprising in Macedonia. The place gained notoriety beyond the borders of the Republic of Macedonia because strong armed clashes between the Albanian insurgents, who belonged to the NLA , and the Macedonian army took place here in May of that year.
Operation MH-2 (Macedonian: Операција МХ-2) was a military operation [3] in the Kumanovo-Lipkovo region during the insurgency in the Republic of Macedonia. Execution of the Operation MH-2 [ edit ]
In Kosovo, a state-owned energy company plans to destroy a village to make way for expanded coal mining as the government and the World Bank plan for a proposed coal-burning power plant. The government has already forced roughly 1,000 residents from their homes. Many former residents claim officials violated World Bank policy requiring borrowers to restore their living conditions at equal or ...
The Macedonian Ministry of Interior declared the attack as a terrorist act. [1] The police stepped up security in the area. [4] A police officer was hospitalized. [6] VMRO-DPMNE condemned the attack. For the Democratic Union for Integration, the incident is "an act that harms the agenda of Albanians in Macedonia, as well as the national agenda ...