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Background. Before the insurgency Preševo Valley was home to approximately 100,000 people, of whom 70,000 were Albanians and another 30,000 Serbs. Albanians make up to 95% of Preševo, 63% of Bujanovac and 26% of Medveđa population. The region is sometimes referred to as Eastern Kosovo by Albanians.
- 12 June 1999 – 31 August 2001, (1 year, 11 months, 2 weeks and 6 days), (main phase: 21 November 2000—31 August 2001)
- FR Yugoslavia regains control of demilitarized Ground Safety Zone, including around 580 square kilometres (220 sq mi) previously held by the UÇPMB
Pemberontakan di Lembah Preševo adalah konflik bersenjata selama kurang lebih dua tahun antara Republik Federal Yugoslavia dan separatis etnis Albania Tentara Pembebasan Preševo, Medveđa dan Bujanovac (UÇPMB).
- 12 Juni 1999 – 31 Agustus 2001, (1 tahun, 11 bulan, 2 minggu, 6 hari)
The 1,500-strong paramilitary launched an insurgency in the Preševo Valley from 1999 to 2001, with the goal of joining these municipalities to Kosovo. The EU condemned what it described as the "extremism" and use of "illegal terrorist actions" by the group.
- 1999–2001
1 killed. 2 wounded. 175 civilians displaced. The Battle of Dobrosin was a conflict between police of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and Albanian militant group Liberation Army of Preševo, Medveđa and Bujanovac (UÇPMB) during the 2000-2001 insurgency in the Preševo Valley.
- 4 March 2000
- LAPMB victory
The Preševo Valley (Serbian Cyrillic: Прешевска долина, romanized: Preševska dolina; Albanian: Lugina e Preshevës) is a geopolitical region in southern Serbia, along the border with Kosovo. The valley geographically includes municipalities of Bujanovac and Preševo, and politically also Medveđa.
Ridvan Qazimi (4 April 1964 – 24 May 2001), known by his nom de guerre as Lleshi, was one of the commanders of the Albanian militant group Liberation Army of Preševo, Medveđa and Bujanovac (UÇPMB). During the 1999–2001 insurgency in the Preševo Valley, he was one of the five commanders of the UÇPMB and commanded the 112th Brigade.
Summarize this article for a 10 year old. 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).
