Ground Safety Zone
| Ground Safety Zone | |||||||||
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| Part of the Insurgency in the Preševo Valley | |||||||||
Map of the Ground Safety Zone. Note that this is not the entirety of the GSZ, but the area in which the UÇPMB controlled up to the yellow line. | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
| UÇPMB | FR Yugoslavia | ||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
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Muhamet Xhemajli Ridvan Qazimi † Shaqir Shaqiri Mustafa Shaqiri |
Ninoslav Krstić Goran Radosavljević Nebojša Čović | ||||||||
| Strength | |||||||||
| 1,600 militants |
3,500–5,000 personnel 100 JSO members | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
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27 killed 150 surrendered to Serbian Police 400 surrendered to KFOR |
24 policemen and soldiers killed 77 wounded | ||||||||
The Ground Safety Zone (Serbian: Копнена зона безбедности, Kopnena zona bezbednosti; Albanian: Zona e Sigurisë Tokësore) was a 5-kilometre-wide (3.1 mi) demilitarized zone (DMZ) established in June 1999 after the signing of the Kumanovo agreement which ended the Kosovo War. It bordered the area between Yugoslavia (FRY) and Kosovo (governed by the UN).