Testing Macedonia
Publisher: ECMI
Volume: 12 page, pdf
Description:
In late February 2001, violence broke out in the village of Tanusevci, located on the northern border with Kosovo (and which served as a KLA base in 1999). This was not a chance incident but rather a deliberate attempt to bring violence to Macedonia by the socalled "National Liberation Army" (NLA). When fighting between the NLA and the Macedonian army spread the following month to Tetovo—the second largest city in the country located in the West with a clear ethnic Albanian majority—the worst fears of the international community concerning a new Balkan war seemed to be confirmed.