Lipkovo crisis
| Lipkovo crisis | |||||||
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| Part of the 2001 insurgency in Macedonia | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
| National Liberation Army | Macedonia | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Abedin Zimberi Nazmi Sulejmani Lefter Koxhaj Xhezair Shaqiri |
Boris Trajkovski Ljubčo Georgievski Pande Petrovski Ljube Boškoski | ||||||
| Units involved | |||||||
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113th Brigade "Ismet Jashari" Skanderbeg special unit |
Macedonian Army Macedonian Police "Tigar" Special Police Unit | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| 12 militants killed |
13 soldiers killed 7 policemen killed 2 soldiers kidnapped (later released unharmed) | ||||||
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3 ethnic Albanian civilians killed 10,000 Albanian civilians displaced | |||||||
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). During the crisis, the NLA captured the Lipkovo dam, which caused a 12-day-long water crisis for the neighboring town of Kumanovo. On 18 June 2001, the NLA agreed to let the International Red Cross and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) restart the water supply systems. Macedonian military operations were halted to allow inspectors to access and repair the pumps.