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Ambush during 1996
Surkis ambush
Part of the Insurgency in Kosovo
Date25 October 1996
LocationSurkis,Podujevo,AP Kosovo,FR Yugoslavia
(present-day Kosovo)
Result KLA victory
Belligerents
Kosovo Liberation Army Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Yugoslav police
Commanders and leaders
Unknown Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Miloš Nikolić †
Strength
Unknown Federal Republic of Yugoslavia 2 Police officers
Casualties and losses
None Federal Republic of Yugoslavia 2 killed

The Surkis ambush was an incident that occured on 25 October 1996 in village of Surkis. The perpetrators of the ambush, the Kosovo Liberation Army killed 2 Yugoslav police officers in the ambush.

Background

After the case of Kosovo was not addresed in the Dayton Agreement, despite the presence of Kosovar president Ibrahim Rugova, the Kosovo Liberation Army, which had previously organized many guerrilla attacks during 1991-early 1995, escalated their attacks starting an insurgency in Kosovo. During 1995 a police officer was murdered allegedly by the KLA, and these murders and ambushed continued for the rest of the year, however the KLA only claimed responsibility for the attacks a year after in 1996. In 1996 KLA attacks further intensified and included the Podujevo region. On 16 June the KLA wounded police officer Goran Mitrović after attacking a police patrol in Podujevo. Again in Podujevo the KLA seriously wounded Serbian police officer Sredoje Radojević on 11 July. More attacks occured in Podujevo such as on 2 August when the Police station was attacked by insurgents and on 31 August in the Pristina-Podujevo-Kursumlija road, however this attack did not lead to any casualties.

Ambush

On 25 October 1996, Kosovo Liberation Army insurgents armed with automatic weapons ambushed 2 Yugoslav police officers in the village of Surkis, near Podujevo. The ambush resulted in the instant death of 2 officers, Miloš Nikolić (34), a police inspector of the Pristina Precinct and Dragan Rakić from Velika Reka, a reserve police officer and a manager of a company in Podujevo. Nikolić was killed in front of his house.

Aftermath

Another attack happened in the village of Rznic, Dečan after the KLA attacked a police station.

References

  1. Independent International Commission on Kosovo (2000). The Kosovo Report (PDF). Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 2. ISBN 978-0199243099. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2022-04-11. Retrieved 2020-08-10.
  2. Professor Peter Radan; Dr Aleksandar Pavkovic (28 April 2013). The Ashgate Research Companion to Secession. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. pp. 178–. ISBN 978-1-4094-7652-8.
  3. Marsden, 2000
  4. ^ "1996". opinionleaders.htmlplanet.com. Retrieved 2024-04-21.
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  6. Milan, Pavlović (4 March 1998). "Chronology of the KLA's Terrorism:April 1996-February 1998". balkania.tripod.com.
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