The 2001 Skopje protests in Skopje, Macedonia, began after the evacuation of National Liberation Army (NLA) insurgents during the Aračinovo crisis, involvement of the international community, and the halting of the Macedonian assault of Aračinovo.

[1][2][4] On 26 June 2001, from 3,000 to 5,000 Macedonian protesters, armed with machine guns, broke into the Parliament building and demanded to talk to the President of Macedonia at the time, Boris Trajkovski, shouting "treason", calling for "resignation",[3] and deriding Trajkovski's decision to allow the rebels to take their weapons when they retreated.

[6][7][8] The crowd was made up of army and police, as well as reservists who kept the NLA encircled in Aračinovo.

They later managed to get into the building, where they started to break windows and furniture, and destroyed two police cars.

[2] Trajkovski was evacuated after demonstrators broke into the Parliament building.