Chams - Victims or Criminals

[JIMY45GR]

Το μεγαλύτερο μέρος των καταδικασθέντων θεωρήθηκαν συνεργάτες των Βουλγάρων ενώ μικρότερος αριθμός κρίθηκε ότι συνεργάσθηκαν με τον Ιταλικό στρατό κατοχής στην δυτική Μακεδονία. Στους Ιταλόφρονες περιλαμβάνοντο και οι 50.000 Τσάμηδες της ορεινής Θεσπρωτίας-Τσαμουριάς που διέφυγαν μαζικά στην Αλβανία.

[MrAugustus88]

When will these fashist Turks give us back Epirus ? Apollonia and Dyrrachium and Antipatria ?

[ponticwarrior]

Εισαι τρομερος ελληναρα Learn2bfree. Φορτωσε κι αλλα βιντεο. Σε συνιστω αντι για ροκ ηπειρωτικα

δημοτικα. Σ οτι αφορα τους αλβανους μπορεις και μουσικη απο το Azerbayjan, για background εννοειται. ΕΥΓΕ!

[McDonian]

the answer is easy: CRIMINALS!

Μ Ο Λ Ω Ν Λ Α Β Ε

[alti73]

you are very good at propaganda shame on you make propaganda to cover crimes you've done on civilians

but dont worry will hunt you back some how

[learn2bfree]

if you stop spitting your vehemence and hatred you will notice that none of the above words are mine. they are documented facts as well documented as the cofu protocol which your goverment signed but did not honour

[McDonian]

Good video, well-researched and full of photographic documentation..

The Chams are the lowliest of the low of all the Albanian tribes: deceitful, spiteful and lazy!

[Mhayai1]

Good job ! They are criminals ! Always allies with occupations armies , turks , germans , italians and now with US-NATO occupation armies . They are opportunists and asslickers !

[abetarjaa]

MISTER learn2bfree ,your propaganda is well payed no doubt,according to lies in all of your vidios and "historical data" which are no more than nothing to people who know not very much about Albania and albanians in and in the ethnic ocupied lands and the oppresion by montenegro,serbia,greece and macedonia.YOU ARE A PARROT OF HELLENIC FANATISM.are you not?

[learn2bfree]

again no proof of what you claim. just stupid characterisations that show the only fanatic here is you

[Steilhandgranate]

Well, i dont see any evidence of yours either.

Bring some on the table first and then we may speak.

[learn2bfree]

if you cannot see the evidence in this video alone then there is nothing you could ever possibly discuss with anyone

[belon83]

albanians are not muslym.. dhey are christian ortodox and laik...

The greek terrorist killed albanian woman and babys...

Oll the greeks are medioeval people.. they all are brianwoshed by the orthodox churc..

[learn2bfree]

because you say so? lol. seems that you have the same ailment as all ur brethren. lack of facts and a 'because i said so" reference does not a valid history make. show me proof or stop making stupid characterisations

[Kartadolofonos]

Death penalty

to all Chams Nazi collaborater Criminals

[learn2bfree]

and please change your greek id. it fools no one.

[learn2bfree]

you say this sure and great. but how come no proof of it has ever been found? how come the only proof is that you joined facists and nazis to raid greek people and greek land? It seems your idea of truth isnt in sync with the rest of the world but you have to realise that isnt called truth it is called delusions of grandeur....

[suliot]

Whatever exuses and lies you greeks will use to cover the truth about your ethnic cleansing in Chameria,it never will work, because the crimes you comited against albanian civilians of Chameria will hunt you forever.

[ANASKALOPISTISS]

next video about turkalbans you should made, shall be about the albanian scouts that they were used by the nazis to invade from the mountains in to Hellas. if you need some info, send me pm.

[learn2bfree]

In this case, the 'oppression of the Cham minority' is a stick to beat Greece. If Albania reverted to Stalinism, then the same lobbies could re-discover Greek nationalist claims that Albania is in fact 'Northern Epiros' - and call for an invasion to liberate it.

Les 'petits peuples' oubliés des Balkans, le Monde Diplomatique.

[learn2bfree]

Interventionism forms a 'symbiosis' with irredentists. Since there are many irredentist claims in the world, for any given territory an 'oppressed minority' can usually be found to justify western intervention...

[learn2bfree]

The Cham issue Miranda Vickers, Conflict Studies Research Centre

To Albanian nationalists, the Cham issue is the 'next Kosovo'. Only a full restoration of the maximum historical territory will satisfy them. This is a feature of irredentism - the standard irredentist claim is the maximum claim. The Conflict Studies Research Centre is part of the British Ministry of Defence, previously a similar report was published by the International Crisis Group, a lobby for western military intervention.

[learn2bfree]

A comment in the author's "Acknowledgements" suggests that the book was commissioned by the publisher to take advantage of the sudden growth in international attention to

the problem. Perhaps because of the rush

to meet a deadline, the author seems not to have been able to give the project the careful attention it deserves. I consider this a great pity.

H-Net Reviews in the Humanities and Social Studies - Book Reviewed by Frederick F. Anscombe, American University in Bulgaria.

[mallakastrioti]

...again Miranda Vickers:

"For those Chams of the Orthodox faith who remained in Greece after 1945, their

Albanian identity was suppressed as a deeply repressive policy of assimilation

ensued and, as before World War II, the Albanian language was not allowed to be

spoken in public, nor taught in the schools.

[mallakastrioti]

The demographic structure of

northwest Greece was altered by the introduction of settlers from other parts of

Greece. Vlachs in particular were encouraged to settle in abandoned Cham villages

without the legal right of ownership.19

[mallakastrioti]

Greece wanted the demographic structure of

the province changed because it did not trust the rest of the Albanian population

who remained there, even though they were of the Christian Orthodox faith. As the

speaking of Albanian was prohibited in public, the assimilation of Orthodox

Albanians gathered momentum and they have struggled ever since to maintain

their identity.

[mallakastrioti]

Joseph Jacobs,

Head of the US Mission in Albania (1945-1946) wrote: "In March 1945 units of

Zervas's dissolved forces carried out a massacre of Chams in the Filiates area, and

practically cleared the district of the Albanian minority.

[mallakastrioti]

According to all the

information I have been able to gather on the Cham issue, in the fall of 1944 and

during the first months of 1945, the authorities in north-western Greece

perpetrated savage brutality by evicting some 25,000 Chams - residents of

Chameria - from their homes.

[mallakastrioti]

Miranda Vickers:

"Colonel Chris Woodhouse, head of

the British Military Mission in Greece reported that: "Encouraged by the Allied

Mission I headed, Zervas drove the Chams out of their homes in 1944. The

majority fled to find shelter in Albania. Their eviction from Greece was carried out

with large-scale bloodshed.

[mallakastrioti]

Zervas's work was followed in March 1945 with a largescale

massacre of the Filiates Chams that cannot be excused. The result was the

eviction of the undesirable Albanian population from their land."15

[mallakastrioti]

Miranda Vickers:

"The majority of Chams, however, were merely

passive collaborators, distrusting the Italians as much as they did the Greek

Royalist guerrilla force of Napoleon Zervas.

[mallakastrioti]

Miranda Vickers.

In March 1926, the Greek government declared that the process of population

exchange was over and that the Chams would henceforth have the same rights as

those enjoyed by other Greek citizens, However, these "rights" remained highly

selective. No Albanian-language schools were permitted and the speaking of

Albanian was discouraged outside the home.

[mallakastrioti]

Miranda Vickers again:

"Following the establishment of the Florence Line, some Greek troops began to

withdraw from Chameria. Greek terrorist bands, however, remained as active as

ever. As the majority of Chams were Muslim, they were treated with the same

contempt as ethnic Turks living in Greece. On 23 February 1913, 72 people were

killed in the village of Proi I Selanit near Paramithia.

[mallakastrioti]

hmmm....From Miranda Vickers that is you video:

"...The name 'Chameria' comes from the ancient Illyrian name for the Tsamis River,

which traversed the territory of the ancient Illyrian tribe of Thesprotes. Chameria

was part of the Roman Empire before being conquered by the Byzantines, and in

the thirteenth century it became part of the Epirus despotate.

[crusmetal]

KOUKOULES FORAGATE RE TOTE.

kai milate kai ollas.

[mnk010203]

ohhhh please, let them come....

Here in Epirus, we owe them something :

Soap and rope are ready !!!

[knindza87]

Same thing happend in Kosovo.

They started a war.

They lost that war.

And then they started to show themselfs like victims.Thats why NATO bombed Serbia.

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Fucking Nazzi asskissers!We should send them all in Adriatic sea to drown themselfs!

[erixthonios]

Typical Albanian pussies. We kicked their turkish ass in 1821 and in the Balkan Wars and when they joined Italy in WWII, but they tried to exploit Greece's defeat at the hands of Germany to usurp our lands. When this attempt was also fend off by greek militias they started bitching about "genocides" and the likes. Why can't they just act like men?

[SpongebobSquarebrain]

Another 5-Star video by Learn2bfree!

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[Laistrigonas]

just true! 5 stars

[cauzeofdeath]

"Arha Ellas apo Oricias kai arhegonos Ellas Epiros"

"Greece starts at Oricus and the most ancient part of Greece is Epirus." (Claudius Ptolemy)

Since foreva. live with it

[learn2bfree]

However the ultimate proof of Greek tribes being called 'barbarians is coming from Athenaios Deipnosophistes where Stratonicus the harp-player was asked "πότερα Βοιωτοί βαρβαρώτεροι...ή θετταλοί, Ηλείους έφησεν" meaning "who were the greatest Barbarians, the Boeotians or the Thessalians" and he replied "the Eleans".

[learn2bfree]

Plato characterized the Lesbos Aeolic Greek dialect as 'a barbarian register' while addressing Pittakos of Mytilene. Aeolic was a Greek dialect.

Another example is the dialogue between Socrates and Strepsiadis in Aristophanes "Clouds". At a certain moment Socrates call Strepsiadis "ανθρωπός αμαθές ουτώσι και βάρβαρος". This make even clearer the term "barbaros" was used as a derogatory term since Strepsiadis...was a well-known Athenian.

your comment is rude, nasty and lacking any fact.

[kinggenti]

you are a typical greek orthodox priest,same propaganda.Since when epirus is greek,if they were called barbarians etc.Chams you say resided .that was 50 years ago from the mass killing that so called greeks did against women and children,.there are still chms living there in chameria and always be,you so called greeks better call you pakis because thats how you look, be very scared.CHAMERIA IS ALBANIA