Insurgency in the Preševo Valley

Insurgency in the Preševo Valley
	Part of the Yugoslav Wars
	; Map of the Preševo Valley
Date	12 June 1999 – 1 June 2001; (1 year, 11 months, 2 weeks and 6 days)
Location	Ground Safety Zone and Albanian populated settlements outside it in Preševo, Bujanovac, and Medveđa municipalities, FR Yugoslavia
Result	Končulj Agreement Yugoslavia retakes the buffer zone; UÇPMB disbanded; Low intensity skirmishes continue;
Territorial; changes	FR Yugoslavia regains control of demilitarized Ground Safety Zone, including around 580 square kilometres (220 sq mi) previously held by the UÇPMB
Belligerents
UÇPMB	FR Yugoslavia
Commanders and leaders
Shefket Musliu ; (Highest commander); Muhamet Xhemajli ; (North zone commander); Ridvan Qazimi "Lleshi" †; (Center zone commander); Njazi Azemi "Mjekrra" †; (115th "Karadak" Brigade commander); Bardhyl Osmani "Delta" †; (113th "Ibrahim Fejzullahu" Brigade commander); Shaqir Shaqiri; (South zone commander 1999-2001); Mustafa Shaqiri ; (South zone commander 2001); Pacir Shicri ; (UÇPMB spokesman) ; Tahir Dalipi ; (UÇPMB spokesman); Lirim Jakupi; (UÇPMB spokesman)	Slobodan Milošević; (President, 1999–2000); Vojislav Koštunica; (President, 2000–01); Col. General Nebojša Pavković; (Chief of the General Staff); Lt. Col. General Vladimir Lazarević; (Commander of the 3rd Army); Lt. Col. General Ninoslav Krstić; (Commander of the Joint Security Forces); Goran Radosavljević; (Police General); Milorad Ulemek; (Secret police); Nebojša Čović; (Head of Coordination Center for Southern Serbia) ; Dragan Dimitrijević † ; (Serbian General)
Strength
1,600 militants	3,500–5,000 personnel; 100 JSO members
Casualties and losses
27 killed; 400 surrendered to KFOR; 150 surrendered to Serbian police	18 policemen and soldiers killed ; 68 wounded
	15 civilians killed (8 Serbs and 7 Albanians) and 25 wounded; 2 UN observers wounded; 15,000 refugees

The Insurgency in the Preševo Valley was an approximately two year-long armed conflict between 1999 and 2001, between the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the ethnic Albanian separatists of the Liberation Army of Preševo, Medveđa and Bujanovac (UÇPMB). There were instances during the conflict in which the Yugoslav government requested KFOR support in suppressing UÇPMB attacks since they could only use lightly armed military forces as part of the Kumanovo Treaty that ended the Kosovo War, which created a buffer zone between FR Yugoslavia and Kosovo.

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