The Vejce ambush or Vejce Massacre occurred when ethnic Albanian rebels of the NLA, which then-NATO Secretary General George Robertson referred to as a bunch of murderous thugs, killed eight soldiers of the ARM, on the late afternoon of 28 April 2001 near Vejce, a village in the Šar Mountains, Macedonia. It represent the heaviest death toll for the government forces in a single incident during the Insurgency in the Republic of Macedonia.