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Preševo Liberation Army, Medveđa and Bujanovac (Albanian: Ushtria Çlirimtare and Preshevës, Medvegjës dhe Bujanocit, UCPMB) was an Albanian guerrilla group fighting in Central Serbia for the independence of the municipalities of Preševo, Bujanovac and Medveđa, also known as The Conflict in the Preševo Valley. Uniforms, procedures and tactics of the UCPMBs had much similarities to those of the Kosovo Liberation Army (UCK). The UCPMB carried out operations between 1999 and 2001, with the aim of adding the three municipalities in Kosovo.
At the end of the Kosovo War in 1999, the United Nations established a three-mile zone around the municipalities within which the army of Serbia and Montenegro was not allowed to patrol; Police with light firearms were allowed. Within the exclusive zone, Dobrosin, but, for example, did not fall into Preševo.
By the ambushes of the Kosovo Liberation Army in the demilitarized zone, the Serbs had to close the patrols almost immediately. Between 21 June 1999 and 12 November 2000, 294 attacks were reported, killing six civilians and eight police officers. Thirty-seven people were injured and five civilians kidnapped. Because of this situation, NATO allowed the Yugoslav army to re-enter the demilitarized zone from May 24, 2001 and called on the UCPMB members to appoint themselves at KFOR. This call resulted in 450 UCPMB-lden, including Commander Shefket Musliu on May 26.
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