 According to Macedonian official claims, security forces killed at least 30 NLA insurgents, including commander Fadil Nimani, while the NLA claimed they lost 16.The Aračinovo crisis is considered to be the turning point in the conflict, and one of its most controversial events.On 12 June 2001, a group of several hundred NLA insurgents took control of the ethnically-mixed village of Aračinovo, located just 8 kilometers from the edge of the capital Skopje.