Albanian rebels ambushed a convoy of the special police unit Lions near the village of Treboš on 11 November 2001.

[7][8] In November, there were media allegations that 13 Macedonian men who were previously reported as abducted by rebels had been executed and buried in one or more mass graves near the village of Treboš.

[11] In reaction, ethnic Albanian villagers retrieved automatic weapons which were withheld and set up checkpoints, vowing to resist Boškoski's forces.

[15] President Boris Trajkovski's cabinet distanced itself from the arrest of the seven Albanians, conceding it had violated the amnesty for the rebels.

[11] Western envoys also blamed him for provoking the violence before the vote in parliament to ratify the Ohrid Framework Agreement.