Written by Sami Arifi. Translation Petrit Latifi
The Greek-Albanian conflicts were a series of armed conflicts between the Greek imperialist forces and Albanian forces stretching between 1913 to 1945.
Greek atrocities in Kemalpaşa
“… Halim and Salih Ağa were also killed by Greek soldiers at the Albanian farm… The brutality , tragedy and cruelty they committed with the intention of revenge … From the moment the Greeks entered Kemalpaşa, they first targeted the youth of the country…”1
Sami Arifi: Greece and Albania between 1913-1945
About Albania’s neighbors, the British Aubery Herbert said, among other things:
“I am convinced that the systematic extermination of Albanians in various border areas of Albania and also inside Greece was carried out by those who had sworn that they were friends of the Albanians. This disaster occurred because the world was unaware of what was happening in that corner of the Balkans”.
Greece played the card by calling “all Albanian Orthodox Christians” Greek, distorting the facts and reality.
From the Conference of Ambassadors in London, most of the Albanian territories were given to Greece. Territorial claims by Greece continued later in Paris, even though the territories taken were predominantly Muslim Albanians, while the Orthodox Christian minority were members of the “Orthodox Church”, however they were not Greeks by race, language or sentiment, but were Albanians.
As a concrete example we have the actions of the Greeks during 1914 when they had invaded the South of Albania, a few months before the outbreak of the First World War. The Orthodox Albanians fled in fear, more than 350 thousand of them, and went to Vlora, while those they captured were massacred by the Greek army, why did it do this if they were Greek?
The Albanians (Chams) in Greece were subjected to a holocaust to displace them from their ancestral lands, and these lands, with the help of Europe, were given to the cronies of Russia. At present, Greece is trying to hide the Holocaust that it did in the past by all means, with its historical forces, which it exerted against the local Cham population who were autochthonous of that country.
The Selani massacre was the first to be carried out in Chameria by the Greek barbarians led by Deli Janaq in March 1913. Where the displacement of Albanians (Chams) was directed from Turkey and Albania.
The displacements towards Turkey intensified on January 30, 1923, where more than 10 thousand Chams were displaced, and continued uninterruptedly in the years 1924-1925, more than 20 thousand Chams.
Muslim Albanians living in Epirus and Macedonia in Greece were forced by force to take the road to Turkey, which exceeded the figure of 384,000 (three hundred and eighty-four thousand). This number of Cham refugees was only during 1923, which according to the Treaty of Lausanne gave the Greeks the opportunity to achieve the objectives they had set themselves with the exchange of populations; that is, to remove the most important part of the compact, autochthonous Albanian population of Chameria to ensure their “ethnic homogeneity”.
The Holocaust against the Chams continued since June 1944-1945. The largest Holocaust in the history of the Albanian people of Chameria occurred on June 25, 1945 by the massacrer Napoleon Zerva, originally from Arta, who massacred more than 2,000 Chams in Paramithi alone, on June 27 of that year.
According to information from British Colonel Woodhouse, who was a witness to the events, who sent this information to London in March 1945, this is also about 1944, among other things he wrote:
“I inform you that Zerva took the Chams out of their homes and expelled them, their expulsion was carried out through great bloodshed, where a number of those who escaped found refuge in Albania”. The largest massacre was that of March 1945, in Filat, which massacre with its large dimensions against the Chams is difficult to describe.
Reference
https://2lonline.com/greqia-dhe-shqiptaret-nga-viti-1913-1945/
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