Kenge Came

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[TheChamerian]

In June 1946, Joseph Jacobs, Head of the U.S. Mission in Albania (1945—1946), writes in his report:

[TheChamerian]

"According to all information I have been able together on the Chams issue, in autumn 1944 and during the first months of 1945, the authorities in north—western Greece perpetrated savage brutality by evicting 25.000 Chams, residents of Chameria, from their homes, where they had been living for centuries on end, chasing them across the border after having robbed them of their land and property. Most of the young people were killed because the majority of the refugees were old folk, and children

[TheChamerian]

Documents of the U.S Department of State, No.84/3,Tirana Mission, 1945—1946, 6—646.

[TheChamerian]

In 1944 the Chams were evicted from Northern Greece by guerilla forces under the command of Gen. Zervas acting under the instructions of Allied officers. It was unfortunately true however that the eviction was carried out in an extremely bloody manner, and in the form of a reprisal..

In March 1945 units of Zervas dissolved forces, under a certain officer called Zotos, carried out a ruthless massacre of the Chams in the Philiates area, and practically cleared the area of Albanian Cham minority.

[TheChamerian]

@TheChamerian Documents of the. British Foreign Office No.371/58479/ R 10458

[IanHunedoara8]

Also chronicled in USA- LIFE magazine photo and caption in monthly issue sometime mid-1944. Photo is probably Filates. Zotis himsell was Arvanite

[TheChamerian]

@TheChamerian Documents of the British Foreign Office ice, No.371/48094/544/R8 564

[TheChamerian]

@TheChamerian "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. Zervas work was followed with a big scale massacre that cannot be excused among the Philiates Chams in march 1945... The result was eviction of the undesirable Albanian population from their own native land"2)

[TheChamerian]

Colonel Chriss Monague Woodhouse, head of the British Military Mission in Greece reported as follows in October 1945