Battle of Lojane
| Battle of Lojane | |||||||||
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| Part of 2001 insurgency in Macedonia | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
| Macedonia | National Liberation Army | ||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
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Boris Trajkovski Pande Petrovski Ljube Boškoski | Unknown | ||||||||
| Units involved | |||||||||
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Macedonian Army Macedonian Police | Unknown | ||||||||
| Strength | |||||||||
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2 Mi-24 helicopters Unknown tanks Unknown | None; NLA militants had withdrawn from the village before the apparent engagement | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
| None | None | ||||||||
| 2,000 Albanian civilians escorted by NLA to southern Serbia | |||||||||
The Battle of Lojane was an apparent military engagement between the Macedonian security forces and Albanian insurgents belonging to the NLA. The occurrence of a battle in the village remains uncertain, as per Stevo Pendarovski, the former interior ministry spokesman. According to him, Macedonian forces faced no opposition from the NLA, as the village had been deserted by both the NLA and Albanian civilians before the Macedonian Army and police forces entered.